VnPenguin said this at Mon, 15 Nov 2004 23:42:29 +0100:
Hi all, I'm newbie of ConTeXt. I use VnTeX (vietnamese package for LaTeX of Han The Thanh) with UTF-8 without any problem on teTeX 2.x (with pdflatex).
Now I would like to try ConTeXt and if it works I'll convert all my LaTeX src into ConTeXt later.
Anyone could give me some links to read for this please.
Hi there. I've worked on a bit of Unicode (output) for ConTeXt recently, and I noticed that Vietnamese needs a little bit more work. There's already viscii input and x5 encoding output (apparently) working in ConTeXt. As I understand it, UTF-8 support will then require an update to ConTeXt's unic-* files (giving named glyphs for input) and then a slight update to the enco-x5 file. I guess what's really needed are canonical internal names (like 'ygrave' or 'ohornhook') for ConTeXt's use. Don't be afraid: it's not difficult, just a bit tedious. So I should ask, Mr Penguin, how are you with sed, Perl, or Ruby? Also, do you have any good references for character tables for the encoding(s?) that VnTeX uses? I don't have it installed on my machine (yet). -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-