Mehdi Omidali wrote:

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Hi everyone, I want to be able to use persian interface in context. So I tried to create two files cont-pe.xml and cont-pe.tex for this purpose. Now my questions are: 1- Am I supposed to just create these two files and then run context --make cont-pe. 2- Can context accept these two files in UTF-8 encoding.

you need to adapt mult-con and mult-com but at the same time we need to adapt mult-sys, so as an experiment if things work out ok, just play a bit with mult-con/com e.g. replace a few harmless commands in the english interface and see if things work ok for persian

footnote: voetnoot footnote fussnote poznamkapodcarou notapdp notasubsol notepdp

eventually persian can become the 8th entry

footnote: voetnoot somethingpersian fussnote poznamkapodcarou notapdp notasubsol notepdp

\somethingpersian then should give you a footnote

(we never really tested it with utf8 input so far)

(when i have time i will (for luatex) make this mechanism different i.e. just lua tables from which i then can generate the con/com files) Hi Hans and everybody, I did as you said and saw two things. 1- The good news: it is possible to assign another name (even persian) for an option name. For example the word "packed" which is used as an

On 10/21/08, Hans Hagen wrote: option in some commands like \setupitemize works well if you substitute it with anything. 2- The bad news: names of commands (I mean words that is used in the input file with a backslash in front of them like footnote or setupsomething) are not well behaved if we change them in mult.con.tex. I tried to change for example the word "footnote" with a persian word with more than one character and in the running time I got the error that that command is not defined. But I was able to redefine footnote with a just one (persian) character. Thanks

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

You need characters with catcode 11 for the commands and most of the chars outside the ASCII range have catcode 12 which can be used only in commands with the length 1 like your footnote example.

hm, maybe the catcode initialization takes place too late

Here is a example how to use umlauts for the german interface:

in the next beta this system is replaced by another one: - mult-def.lua this is a table that has all variables, constants, elements and commands in a hash which then can be extended without the need to adapt the tex code - mult-en, mult-de, mult-nl ... these are generated by mtxrun --script interface --contect - cont-en.xml cum suis the derived ones are also generated by the previously mentioned command - stripped down mult-ini.{mkii,mkiv} the other two files (mult-con and mult-com) are no longer used taco and i are currently checking the new zip 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------