2007/12/8, Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-12-07 um 19:17 schrieb Hans Hagen:
As a prelude to an independent language mechanism for mkiv (the tex part) I removes a few thingies. I was wondering ... is anyone using language specifics? Active quote stuff? Does that still make sense for mkiv? After all we can have more advanced exceptions and we have utf ...
Perhaps I don't really understand what you mean, but I always use \quote and \quotation and sometimes also change the language according to my text -- did you mean that with "active quote stuff"? Or just that strange Italian (or French?) quoting style with quotation marks in front of every line? Or something completely different?
I think he mean the old methods write for example umlauts and other accents. You write "a to get ä, "s to get ß ... The last user how needed this suport for german was Steffen Wolfrum but the active characters are disabled by default and ConTeXt has it's commands to allow hyphens before compund words. Wolfgang