[NTG-context] switching font encodings
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Jul 17 11:56:43 CEST 2006
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have to print plenty of utf-8-encoded entries from a database. I
> will probably output entries as
> \contestant{name}{country}{code},
> for example
> \contestant{Đức Đặng}{VNM}{1}
>
> I have defined
> \def\contestant#1#2#3{...#1...}
>
> But what's the easiest way to change the encoding to t5 if the country
> code is VNM and to some other encoding if country code is RUS, SER (or
> one of other countries using Cyrillic)?
> I'll probably use
>
you can try to define multiple typefaces, say mainfont-ec, mainfont-qx, mainfont-t5 and then switch to them using languagespecifics related definitions
Hans
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