Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future) for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems there.)
XeTeX can use Chinese fonts since the first day :-) I remember Jonathan trying it out during TUG in Wuhan over two years ago ...
By the way, yesterday there was a thread about the LaTeX zhspacing package on the XeTeX list, and I was wondering if its features were already present in ConTeXt's Chinese module; if not, it probably wouldn't be so much work to “port” it.
there is some spacing support in the mkiv files (but not yet finished, i will pick up that cjk thread when the next beta is finished) i dunno about zaspacing (and also am not sure about supporting it) because it probably uses this 'code-between-characters' mechanism; it only makes sense to support that when i make some interface for it and it's one of those areas where xetex code is rather different from luatex code Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------