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- From: rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren)
- Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
- In-Reply-To: moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch's message of 26 Jan 93 09:50:25 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:32:00 GMT
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- In article <MOREAUX.93Jan26105025@litsun22.epfl.ch> moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch (Michel Moreaux) writes:
- >
- > OzTeX has a multi-language extension called Euro-OzTex allowing hyphenation of
- > most "non-english" languages. For instance, Euro-OzTeX allows to write in
- > Greek, French, German and even Russian. Maybe that sounds useless for you, but
- > for me, European people speaking different languages, it is very important.
- > I think it is very sad that the basic "TeX" has be developped only thinking of
- > english. Really poor design (please no flame) ! Our Unix version of LaTeX
- > required some patches in order to allow hyphenation of words containing
- > characters encoded on 8 bits. I do not know if TeXture allows hyphenation of
- > "non-english" languages.
- >
-
- Yes, but this is not a feature of OzTeX, but of TeX the program. Anybody
- can build multilingual versions of LaTeX for Textures given the right
- hyphenation tables.
-
- There is no need for patches to understand 8-bit hyphenation table for
- foreign languages, this functionality came with TeX 3.0.
-
- TeX is TeX. With TeX 3.0, this became even more so. :-)
-
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