On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 11.05.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Yue Wang:

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Hi Wolfgang:

nice script.

Can the module meet my needs discussed in http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/040831.html ?

dunno, i have to see more from your code

The code is already in http://code.google.com/p/ctex-kit/ It's located in /trunk/zhspacing/ directory. Thanks for reviewing. The key idea is to group chinese words in {\zhfonts } automatically using XeTeX's interchartok mechanism. In LaTeX, It saves the current latin nfss style state in a macro, then apply to the zhfonts group. related code is in zhspacing/tex/latex/zhfont.sty. But I don't know how to do that in ConTeXt.

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or is it possible to extend the support to xetex?

possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback mechanism needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while.

Wolfgang

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback mechanism needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while.

this is unlikely to happen (unless we add lots of optional code to mkii to deal with xetex which then probably results in a lot of other code hooked into other mechanisms as well) as mkii is kind of frozen

if we have to port all sophisticated (upcoming) mkiv features back to mkiv we might wonder why we started with mkiv in the first place; the whole idea is to have less (complex) code

not like that complicated (we do not need font fallback). it is only something about: save the current font style (like \ss, \it ,10pt) to a macro . then apply the macro to a group. for example aa { \anotherfont bb} we should save the style for aa when \anotherfont is called, and apply that style to bb. that should be enough. but we don't know how to get the font style.

Hans

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Yue Wang wrote:

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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possible yes but it's a lot of work because the complete fallback mechanism needs to be written for XeTeX which is available for MkIV since a while.

this is unlikely to happen (unless we add lots of optional code to mkii to deal with xetex which then probably results in a lot of other code hooked into other mechanisms as well) as mkii is kind of frozen

if we have to port all sophisticated (upcoming) mkiv features back to mkiv we might wonder why we started with mkiv in the first place; the whole idea is to have less (complex) code

not like that complicated (we do not need font fallback).

it is only something about:

save the current font style (like \ss, \it ,10pt) to a macro . then apply the macro to a group. for example

aa { \anotherfont bb} we should save the style for aa when \anotherfont is called, and apply that style to bb.

that should be enough. but we don't know how to get the font style.

see \pushcurrentfont

Thank you, I will look into that. Many thanks:)

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Am 11.05.2009 um 14:41 schrieb Yue Wang:

Hi Wolfgang:

nice script.

Can the module meet my needs discussed in http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/040831.html ? or is it possible to extend the support to xetex?

When you take care about font switching in your module it's easy, large part of the code can be left out because XeTeX can find the regular/italic/... styles itself. \unprotect \def\setmainfont[#1]{\definetypeface[simplefonts][rm][Xserif][#1] [default]} \def\setsansfont[#1]{\definetypeface[simplefonts][ss][Xsans] [#1] [default]} \def\setmonofont[#1]{\definetypeface[simplefonts][tt][Xmono] [#1] [default]} \appendtoks\setupbodyfont[simplefonts]\to\everystarttext \protect \setmainfont[Times New Roman] \setsansfont[Arial] \setmonofont[Courier New] \starttext \rm\tf roman \it italic \bf bold \bi bolditalic \ss\tf roman \it italic \bf bold \bi bolditalic \tt\tf roman \it italic \bf bold \bi bolditalic \stoptext Wolfgang

Am 11.05.2009 um 15:18 schrieb Mohamed Bana:

great! thanks Wolfgang.

is this working with the latest minimals? Hopefully I'll get to try it later.

Yes, it works with the last version but you have to install by hand. Wolfgang

You can comment the lines 56–59 and the message will disappear. I expect from users who want to use mkiv to have always a recent context version on their system, in mkii i try to be compatible with older versions but this is not always possible. Wolfgang Am 16.05.2009 um 18:23 schrieb Mohamed Bana:

Hi Wolfgang,

Sorry to hassle you again, but I have a quick question. I'm using

Creator: ConTeXt - 2008.10.31 13:58 Producer: luaTeX-0.30.3

as a few things don't work with a recent release, and I get the following errors;

! Undefined control sequence. l.50 \setinterfacemessage {simplefonts}{title}{simplefonts} ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.51 \setinterfacemessage {simplefonts}{1} {font -- not found} ?

Are they important? If not I'll simply ignore them with --batchmode.