[XeTeX] On cross-language font selection

[Yin Dian]

Hi,

  The current code is in the attachment. It's buggy and requires further
development. Just for the interested and impatient:)

  Best regards!
                                   -Dian YIN

2007/2/16, Yin Dian <yindian at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi,
>
>   I didn't notice that the some of ``at'' sign in my source file are
> converted to the literal `` at ''. That should be the reason for your
> failure to compile. Maybe it's the fault of Google Web-mail. I should have
> enclosed the source in the attachment.
>
>   I've just finished the part for dealing with parameterized command.
> Currently I'm working with non-breakable character sequences such as
> ligatures or commands that looks at \futurelet. It is estimated that the
> code will be completed this evening. I'll post it here then.
>
>   Best regards!
> -Dian YIN
>
> 2007/2/16, Jjgod Jiang <gzjjgod at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 在 07-2-16，Yin Dian<yindian at gmail.com> 写道：
> > > Hi jjgod,
> > >
> > >    I came up with an inspiration yesterday night on the macro
> > implementation
> > > of font selection and space skipping. It is based on the thought of
> > explicit
> > > switch via the active tilde. After an hour's hack I've finished the
> > > primitive part. Further development requires a judge for math mode and
> > > parameterized commands, so the change of behavior of backslash and
> > braces is
> > > needed.
> > >
> > >   Following is a test case encoded in UTF-8. Compiled successfully on
> > my
> > > XeTeX 2.2-0.996.
> >
> > Are you sure it's working, because I got the following error in the
> > same version:
> >
> > This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> > %&-line parsing enabled.
> > entering extended mode
> > (./yin.tex
> > ! Undefined control sequence.
> > <recently read> \xchinese@
> >
> > <to be read again>
> >                    i
> > \xchinese at iterate ...?  \expandafter \xchinese@ i
> >                                                   terate at next   \fi
> > l.85
> >
> > - jjgod.
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