Hi all! I have a very basic question which occupies me for more than a week now: How to setup documents for german language properly, such that: 1. the used input encoding is ISO-8859-1, 2. german special character are available, and 3. german hyphenation patterns are used. The setup shown below does not work: TeX is not able to hyphenate "Änderungsabnahme" and the \quotedblbase symbol is broader than its counterpart the \quotedblleft symbol. Thanks for your attention and help, --Stefan \setupoutput[pdftex] \enableregime[il1] \usetypescript[times][ec] \mainlanguage[de] \starttext äÄöÖüÜß quotedblbase: \quotedblbase quotedblleft: \quotedblleft \showhyphens{Änderungsabnahme} \stoptext
Sorry for going back to an older thread, but I don't think the question was answered properly. Alexander Klink wanted to know how to typeset "{" and "}". Suggestions were "\type|{| and \type|}|" or "$\{$ and $\}$". Neither of which is satisfactory, because it will typeset them either in typewriter or in math font. We had a discussion about similar questions a while ago. I still think we should have "\{" and "\}" for this kind of thing. As long as this isn't available, I see no better solution than "\getglyph{Serif}{123}" and "\getglyph{Serif}{125}" vel. sim. For those of us working in the humanities, these curly braces are sometimes necessary (e.g., in critical editions), and having them in typewriter or math fonts isn't acceptable. So may I continue my rally for \{ etc.? All best Thomas
A couple of fonts, including Computer Modern Roman, do not have curly braces as glyphs. As Computer Modern Roman is the brick-and-mortar font of TeX, few people bother that there is no explicit token/command that evokes it. You have a point though. -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain
At 07:24 18/02/2004, you wrote:
A couple of fonts, including Computer Modern Roman, do not have curly braces as glyphs. As Computer Modern Roman is the brick-and-mortar font of TeX, few people bother that there is no explicit token/command that evokes it.
mayhe changing to LatinModern will help, since that's a complete font ... Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
Sorry for going back to an older thread, but I don't think the question was answered properly. Alexander Klink wanted to know how to typeset "{" and "}". Suggestions were "\type|{| and \type|}|" or "$\{$ and $\}$". Neither of which is satisfactory, because it will typeset them either in typewriter or in math font. We had a discussion about similar questions a while ago. I still think we should have "\{" and "\}" for this kind of thing. As long as this isn't available, I see no better solution than "\getglyph{Serif}{123}" and "\getglyph{Serif}{125}" vel. sim. For those of us working in the humanities, these curly braces are sometimes necessary (e.g., in critical editions), and having them in typewriter or math fonts isn't acceptable. So may I continue my rally for \{ etc.?
Sorry for the delay. \textbraceleft and \textbraceright should work ok if encodings are set up correctly. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
On Feb 18, 2004, at 4:20 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
\textbraceleft and \textbraceright should work ok if encodings are set up correctly.
Your're right, it works as expected. Thanks a lot! All best Thomas
At 09:17 17/02/2004, Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
Sorry for going back to an older thread, but I don't think the question was answered properly. Alexander Klink wanted to know how to typeset "{" and "}". Suggestions were "\type|{| and \type|}|" or "$\{$ and $\}$". Neither of which is satisfactory, because it will typeset them either in typewriter or in math font. We had a discussion about similar questions a while ago. I still think we should have "\{" and "\}" for this kind of thing. As long as this isn't available, I see no better solution than "\getglyph{Serif}{123}" and "\getglyph{Serif}{125}" vel. sim. For those of us working in the humanities, these curly braces are sometimes necessary (e.g., in critical editions), and having them in typewriter or math fonts isn't acceptable. So may I continue my rally for \{ etc.?
The problem is that the cmr fonts are not that complete. Once we switch to the lmr fonts, this problem will disappear (sincethen we can use other encoding vectors) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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