[XeTeX] XeTeX Digest, Vol 67, Issue 40
Michiel Kamermans
pomax at nihongoresources.com
Sat Oct 17 13:35:25 CEST 2009
mhbezine2009 wrote:
> Now I understand that XeTeX is intended to regard Chinese chars as
> normal "letters". Is it possible to simply define a macro to let
> non-alpha chars terminate the command parsing? Note that LaTeX
> provides commands \makeatother and \makeatletter to do somewhat
> similar work:-) Especially, I hope to extend such features for "@" to
> chinese characters (including chinese punctuations) since it would
> look more natural not to insert odd spaces or "\ " for Chinese
> typesetting.
Look more natural in which respect? Typically people will never see your
.tex source file, so what should matter is how it comes rolling out of
the DVI/PDF generation process I would imagine? Since this behaviour is
uniform in XeTeX for any unicode character, it might not be a good idea
to start adding exception rules to the actual parsing of the TeX source
based merely on which characters follow - you would be breaking every
XeTeX source written that now use mixed script macros, for instance.
That's arguably a really bad idea =)
- Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
nihongoresources.com
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