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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: JadeTeX does not work yet with non-Latin-1
From:       Claudiu Costin <claudiuc () interplus ! ro>
Date:       2000-01-20 18:45:56
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> > But it would work with the script, not?
> 
> Maybe. I don't know how much Claudiu's script is dependant
> on Romanian character set and how easily it could be adapted
> to other languages (Greek, Russian, ...).
> 
> Any idea, Claudiu ?

  It's easy to port. It need to be changed to support external
language dependent files.

> 
> > The advantage of unicode in
> > our own code is that we can be clever to use the right tex character
> > and even patch the includepackage line if it would be necessary :)
> 
> ... But as I said, AFAIK TeX doesn't handle unicode yet.
> 
> > I don't think, it's easy to patch it in babel, but it should work
> > to merge 1) into a fix for jadetex - I have unfortuatly no idea what
> > jadetex does exactly (and no time for this anyway)
> 
> Yes. I also suppose that to adapt Claudiu's script would
> take less time than to correct jadetex or babel (it's a
> guess - I may be wrong). But the second solution would have
> been cleaner ;-)

  Babel complain to not be configured. db2ps script need 
to insert on top of ".tex" a \usepackage{mylang} declaration.
This is need to be job of jade.


best regards,
-- 
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Claudiu COSTIN       claudiuc@interplus.ro
sysad ADComm.pub.ro  claudiuc@geocities.com
Linux-KDE Romania    http://www.ro.kde.org
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