<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Hello all,<br><br>Polyglossia knows many languages, but also lacks support for many languages. An example is Japanese. I have looked at it two times and concluded that polyglossia cannot support Japanese. The reason in this case is simple: in Japanese, "chapter 1" is written as 第1章, litterally "number 1 chapter", and similar for all other "document divisions". The "standard" latex classes encode the chapter numbering as "chapter_name_string chapter_number", and it is not possible to change this to "prefix chapter_number chapter_name_string" from polyglossia. It has to be done at the level of the documentclass (or maybe a stylefile). But, bottom line, polyglossia cannot do it. I suspect there are (potentially many) languages with similar problems. <br><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>As far as code2000 is concerned, indeed, it supports a tremendous amount of scripts, but it is __not__ intended to typeset entire documents. It lacks boldface, slanted, italic, etc. In short, it is not a complete font at the level of "professional" typesetting. <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Code2000 was developed (IIRC Netscape and Bitstream) for internet browsers to be able to support a wide range of scripts at the level of being able to put something on the screen even if the system does not have the specific fonts for
(uncommon) scripts. As such, it was never intended for "real" typesetting.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Cheers,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Wilfred<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font
face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex@tug.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:53 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [XeTeX] Letterly fonts<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5371218660"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv5371218660gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;">If you use polyglossia and set the font to Code2000, then people from many lands can type in their own alphabets, and XeLaTeX will do fine.<br>
</div><div class="yiv5371218660gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms, sans-serif;font-size:small;">Best,<br>Dominik<br></div><div class="yiv5371218660gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="yiv5371218660gmail_quote">On 5 August 2013 03:47, Kai Hendry <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:hendry@iki.fi" target="_blank" href="mailto:hendry@iki.fi">hendry@iki.fi</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv5371218660gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv5371218660im">On 5 August 2013 08:56, Wilfred van Rooijen <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:wvanrooijen@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:wvanrooijen@yahoo.com">wvanrooijen@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> What is a "letter template" for the world?<br>
<br>
</div>Well my dream would be people from India, China or Korea, after<br>
visiting <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://letterly.com/">http://letterly.com/</a> can create a letter PDF using Xetex in<br>
their own script.<br>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(message)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(message)</a><br>
<br>
Tbh from my strand point I would like to mix a lot of esoteric glyphs<br>
in one letter, just for fun.<br>
<br>
Trouble is I don't think Xetex allows you to use multiple fonts at one<br>
time very easily at all and that would be necessary.<br>
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