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author | Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au> | 2010-09-14 20:37:45 +0000 |
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committer | Jeffrey H. Kingston <jeff@it.usyd.edu.au> | 2010-09-14 20:37:45 +0000 |
commit | c89f0bc2209f7f98695e6b94fbac316c84fbf9d4 (patch) | |
tree | 456d506bd18edd3b768eaffa8f70ae93565682e4 /doc/user/bas_lang | |
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Lout 3.25.
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diff --git a/doc/user/bas_lang b/doc/user/bas_lang index a4c33e9..fec9a63 100644 --- a/doc/user/bas_lang +++ b/doc/user/bas_lang @@ -33,29 +33,32 @@ knowing that non-English parts will appear as they should. @PP At the time of writing, the following languages were available: @ID @OneRow @Code { -Czech Cesky Cestina -Danish Dansk -Dutch Nederlands -English -EnglishUK -Finnish Suomi -French Francais Fran{@Char ccedilla}ais -German Deutsch -Hungarian Magyar -Italian Italiano -Norwegian Norsk -Polish Polski -Portuguese Português -Russian -Slovenian Slovenia Slovenija -Spanish Espa{@Char ntilde}ol -Swedish Svenska +Croatian Hrvatski +Czech Cesky Cestina cs +Danish Dansk da +Dutch Nederlands nl +English en +EnglishUK en-GB +Finnish Suomi fi +French Francais Fran{@Char ccedilla}ais fr +German Deutsch de +Hungarian Magyar hu +Italian Italiano it +Norwegian Norsk no +Polish Polski pl +Portuguese Português pt +Russian ru +Slovak Slovensky Slovencina +Slovenian Slovenia Slovenija sl +Spanish Espa{@Char ntilde}ol es +Swedish Svenska sv +UpperSorbian hornjoserbsce serbsce } -As shown, most languages have alternative names, all equally acceptable -to the @Code "@Language" symbol. @Code "EnglishUK" differs from -@Code "English" only by applying hyphenation rules said to be more -appropriate for British English. Hungarian does not yet allow -hyphenation. +File @Code "include/langdefs" in the distribution always has the exact +list of known languages. As shown, most languages have alternative +names, all equally acceptable to the @Code "@Language" +symbol. @Code "EnglishUK" differs from @Code "English" only by applying +hyphenation rules said to be more appropriate for British English. @PP If your entire document is in a language other than English, you need to change the @Code "@InitialLanguage" option: @@ -65,8 +68,8 @@ If you are using your own setup file (Section {@NumberOf setup}), you can change it there. If not, you can change it at the start of your document, as explained in Section {@NumberOf ordinary}. @PP -Czech, Polish, and Slovenian use the Latin2 character set, and -users of these languages have to place +Czech, Polish, and Slovenian (at least) use the Latin2 character set, +and users of these languages have to place @ID @Code "@SysInclude { latin2 }" at the start of their documents in order to get access to the Latin2 versions of the fonts. @@ -76,9 +79,24 @@ been corrected by getting Lout to generate output for these characters which prints their base letter and accent separately. } These have family names such as TimesCE, CourierCE, HelveticaCE, and so on (CE standing for Central European), to distinguish them from the same -fonts encoded in Latin1. The face names are unchanged. Consult -database file @Code "latin2.ld" in the standard database directory -for a complete list of these fonts. +fonts encoded in Latin1. The face names are unchanged. A typical +Latin2 document would therefore start off like this: +@ID @OneRow @Code { +"@SysInclude { latin2 }" +"@SysInclude { doc }" +"@Document" +" @InitialLanguage { Polish }" +" @InitialFont { TimesCE Base 12p }" +"//" +} +Depending on the document type there may be a few other font-setting +options in the setup file that need to be changed; in fact, it might be +best to produce your own setup file in this case, replacing {@Code "doc"}, +with the changed options in it. See Section {@NumberOf setup} for how +to do this. You could even start your setup file off with +@Code "@SysInclude { latin2 }" to avoid the trouble of typing it at +the top of every document. Consult database file @Code "latin2.ld" +in the standard database directory for a complete list of Latin2 fonts. @PP Russian uses Cyrillic characters. In principle, users of Russian have to place |