At 08:46 PM 12/2/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Some time ago I saw a post on DocBook list from Sebastian Rahtz who is considering to rewrite PassiveTex with ConTeXt support instead of LaTeX.
That would be very good; much better than just doing docbook. Sometimes I think I would better spend my time on such an effort, but I am afraid it is a huge task.
since i know a bit about the context internals ... actually, the best way to handle it is to build on top of low level counterparts; will look into that later [the only use i see for fo's in our workflows is as sub docs; kind of image like approach; so i'll writ eit anyway]
The question remains, how to do it with multi-lingual document encoded in utf-8?
Any hint?
As is the case more often in open source: do it yourself. Hans has not taken part in this discussion, so I think he does not feel like embarking on an effort in this area.
hm, utf is on my agenda, but for chars that i don't use myself i depend on others -)
The basic mechanism to make TeX work with encodings is to declare all characters above 127 active, and map them to a suitable control sequence. But that only works with single-byte encodings.
the machinery is already there for quite some time; it's the way chinese/korean is implemented; and for western languages the mechanism is even simpler.
While I am writing this, I am beginning to think that copying xmltex's algorithm to context is the best way to go.
not sure about that; as said, context has the machinery already; i only need tables to work with (+the conversion stuff taco mailed earlier)
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