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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: Which is better, OzTeX or Textures?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.003132.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:31:32 PST
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- In article <MOREAUX.93Jan26105025@litsun22.epfl.ch>, moreaux@litsun22.epfl.ch (Michel Moreaux) writes:
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- > 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.
-
- It sounds like you have either a poorly misinformed and
- maintained TeX system or something very strange is happening.
- Standard TeX can handle up to 256 different languages and
- eight-bit input. Michael Ferguson has made available some
- multilingual patches but they are really only necessary if you
- feel that it's absolutely necessary to be able to have eight bit
- control sequences. Personally, I think that the loss of an umlaut
- in a control sequence name is no bigger sacrifice than \@ne is
- for English speakers.
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- -dh
- Don Hosek
- dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu
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