spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation
Hi team: How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro
Ciro Soto wrote:
Hi team:
How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro
\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending on editor) \starttext You can write \exclamdown\ or ¡ and \questiondown\ or ¿ \stoptext Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Ciro Soto wrote:
Hi team:
How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro
\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending on editor) \starttext You can write \exclamdown\ or � and \questiondown\ or � \stoptext
that's not comfortable for spanish users, so ... let's hook it into specifics: \starttext \startlanguagespecifics[fr] \definetextmodediscretionary : {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{:}:} \definetextmodediscretionary ; {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{;};} \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{?}?} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{!}!} \stoplanguagespecifics % goes to enco-ffr \startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics spanish|?| spanish|!| \hyphenatedword{\es spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{\es spanish|!|\relax} \hyphenatedword{spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{spanish|!|\relax} \hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|!|\relax} \stoptext \mainlanguage[es] Hey Mojca, does this look better|?| (the |??| is always available) i'll add this to the distribution Hans
I didn't understand Hans's instructions. What should I do?
Mojka's solution worked fine.
I used
\def\qd{\questiondown}
to shorten the keyword.
c
On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Ciro Soto wrote:
Hi team:
How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro
\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending on editor) \starttext You can write \exclamdown\ or � and \questiondown\ or � \stoptext
that's not comfortable for spanish users, so ... let's hook it into specifics:
\starttext
\startlanguagespecifics[fr] \definetextmodediscretionary : {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{:}:} \definetextmodediscretionary ; {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{;};} \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{?}?} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\removeunwantedspaces\prewordbreak\kern\hspaceamount\empty{!}!} \stoplanguagespecifics
% goes to enco-ffr
\startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics
spanish|?| spanish|!|
\hyphenatedword{\es spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{\es spanish|!|\relax}
\hyphenatedword{spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{spanish|!|\relax}
\hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|?|\relax} \hyphenatedword{\fr spanish|!|\relax}
\stoptext
\mainlanguage[es] Hey Mojca, does this look better|?|
(the |??| is always available)
i'll add this to the distribution
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How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up- side down? thank you
Better in matters of logical markup would be a definition like \quotation, say \exclamation or \question, but I don't know if there are languages other than Spanish that need additional signs/formatting for those... Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up- side down? thank you
Better in matters of logical markup would be a definition like \quotation, say \exclamation or \question, but I don't know if there are languages other than Spanish that need additional signs/formatting for those...
interesting suggestion, we can use the delimited text mechanism for it (core-mis); what do the spanish users think of if? Hans
I think using a definition like \question
(or \pregunta if we use a spanish keyword)
would be useful.
ciro
On 12/26/05, Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up- side down? thank you
Better in matters of logical markup would be a definition like \quotation, say \exclamation or \question, but I don't know if there are languages other than Spanish that need additional signs/formatting for those...
interesting suggestion, we can use the delimited text mechanism for it (core-mis); what do the spanish users think of if?
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On 12/24/05, Ciro Soto wrote:
I didn't understand Hans's instructions. What should I do?
Try this: % this will be added into ConTeXt, so you can leave it out next time %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % an example of the usage: \mainlanguage[es] \starttext |!|Feliz Navidad! \stoptext
On 12/23/05, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
\enableregime[utf] % for utf-8, may be something else as well (depending on editor) \starttext You can write \exclamdown\ or ¡ and \questiondown\ or ¿ \stoptext
that's not comfortable for spanish users, so ... let's hook it into specifics:
I don't know the Spanish habits. I thought that they usually simply hit the proper symbol on their keyboards, but I agree that it's nice to have an "ascii" way to get them.
\startlanguagespecifics[es] \definetextmodediscretionary ? {\prewordbreak\questiondown} \definetextmodediscretionary ! {\prewordbreak\exclamdown} \stoplanguagespecifics
\mainlanguage[es] Hey Mojca, does this look better|?|
|?|I didn't manage to catch the difference in line-breaking algorithm, but aren't those turned quotation marks at the beginning of the sentence? (like \exclamdown\prewordbreak, but as I said - I don't know if it makes any difference at all)
i'll add this to the distribution
So don't forget to mention it in the new manual as well ;) Mojca
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