2013/9/13 Proteus <prote...@sdf.lonestar.org>: >> Does anyone know if there exists a TECkit mapping for Beta Code? >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_code> >> >> I've found the betababel package, which I assume uses some single- >> byte encoding, and am aware, though challenged to handle, that >> some workaround to handle '\#=' as a text characters is needed; >> any help in this regard would be much appreciated. >> >> What I got are non-LaTeX plaintext files (which I'd like to not >> need to retype manually at all) written with Greek in uppercase >> Beta Code and Latin-script text (mostly English but some German >> and French quotes) written in lowercase with Beta Code >> conventions for uppercase letters and diacritics, plus the ad hoc >> '**' for literal asterisks, moreover it uses 'v' and 'j' for >> digamma and jod in reconstructed forms, and the non-Beta Code >> conventions '_' for macron, and TeX-like '--' for dash. >> >> I'm really suspecting that I'd be better off prefiltering the >> sources with some ad hoc (computer) script before marking them >> up, am I not? > > > No Teckit mapping but I have a utility written in C > that converts Beta Code to unicode. > It also handles all the special symbols prefixed with {,<,",[,# et.c. > Latin text is ignored provided it is enclosed between a & and a $. > The TECkit map is not difficult to make, the syntax of the map file is fully documented and is simple. You can look to the xetex-devanagari package to see how different devanagari transliterations are handled, similarly Arab-XeTeX may provide an example. > > Please email me or post a sample here to see if I can help. > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
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