Jonathan Kew wrote:
On 13 Jun 2006, at 8:25 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
On a more general level, if both ConTeXt and XeTeX are engaged in converting legacy TeX hyphenation patterns to utf-8, should they be coordinated in order to avoid duplication of effort?
anyone can use the patterns; of course bugs need to be sorted out, but given my experiences with pattern maintainance i will not drop them from context; too much has gone wrong in the past; but you can consider them to be generic so indeed we can avoid duplication of work.
Indeed.... I have no desire to duplicate work. :)
My main concern at this point relates to packaging and co-ordination between the different macro packages that load patterns; we can't expect latex users to be dependent on having context installed, or vice versa. Patterns belong in a base tex installation, where they can be available to any higher-level macro package.
well, the problem is that until now, most pattern files were basically latex oriented files; the same is kind of true with fonts: changes in related files and names take place, and are synced with latex and then bites contex users; i've kind of given up on that
This needs to be sorted out among a wider group than this mailing list....
well, installing the lang-* pat files only is an option, as is adding tex/context/patterns to the xetex input path in the xetex input path variable (although i believe that the tree is searched anyway); also, given what people have to install nowadays, installing the context ipackage is not that big a burden (xetex binaries and associated libs are pretty big themselves anyway) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------