At 11:17 AM 1/24/2003 +0300, Victor Figurnov wrote:
15/01/2003 Hans Hagen wrote to Pavel Stupin about 'Typesetting Russian':
PS>> I installed the files, and now I can typeset russian. PS>> That's great.
HH> Without any changes? Good, so it can go into the distribution?
Russification of ConTeXt has been discussed in the russian TeX newsgroup fido7.ru.tex. Here are results.
1. Alexander Bokovoy (15/01/2003) said that russification by Olga Briginets (http://trash1.hotmail.ru) -- this is a russification discussed in NTG-ConTeXt -- is slightly obsolete. He modified it, and now it conforms 'teTeX-2.0 pretest-20030107'. Modified version is available at: http://people.altlinux.ru/~ab/tex/context-russian.tar.bz2
2. Vladimir Volovich (one of the authors of the cyrillic support in LaTeX) noticed that kerning in 8-bit fonts has been lost:
"in Context the support of 8-bit encodings turned out to be so bad, that kerning is completely disappeared there. LaTeX is still not so bad, this thing is implemented much more neatly there."
i wonder if this is related to context, since kerning is mostly a font issue, unless one automatically inserts {} between chars; i need to check the tarball for this; Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------