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[BPJ]

> characters] ङ  and ञ are not used in Hindi, they should be removed from
index

Aren't they used in conjuncts either?

/bpj


onsdag 23 mars 2016 skrev Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

> Hi Javier,
>
> I am copying my reply to the cstex list because I am not autoritative for
> Slovak and maybe I will not be precise enough. I am giving my commnents to
> Czech (cs.ini), Slovak (sk.ini), and Hindi (hi.ini). Some comments are
> common for all.
>
> I do not understand the meaning of the encoding field. T1 and OT1 are font
> encodings for use with 8-bit TeX, XeTeX is able to use UTF-8 or UTF-16 and
> such fonts are available. IL2 (in Czech) was historically used in cslatex.
> It is preserved for legacy documents but deprecated, unsupported in babel
> and should be deleted. I know nothing about LY1. Before Unicode there
> existed many private encodings for Devanagari, many web pages used it and
> it was necessary to install a special font. Such fonts can still be found
> but IMO there is no sense to support them.
>
> I understand hyphenchar (should be the same as in English in all mentioned
> languages) but do not understand the other hyphen* fields.
>
> The minus sign in both Czech and Slovak should be –
>
> The quotes in both Czech and Slovak are „ and “ (the closing quote has its
> codepoint in Unicode but is rarely present in fonts, it is better to use
> English opening quote which has the same shape).
>
> In Czech (and maybe also in Slovak) the time separator is a period, in
> sport results and time tables a colon is used.
>
> Slovak: characters Ä Ď Ô Ť in index look strange to me, it should be
> proved by a native Slovak speaker.
>
> Hindi
> ====
>
> See the note on the encoding above
>
> A few misprints and missing items in the captions
> bib = संदर्भ-ग्रन्थ (or संदर्भ-ग्रंथ)
> contents - the version you have is one of the alternatives suggested by
> Anshuman Pandey but most books I have bought in India contain अनुक्रम
> part = खण्ड (or खंड)
> page = पृष्ठ
> proof = प्रमाण
> glossary = शब्दार्थ सूची
>
> cc, encl, and headto make no sense, I am probably the only man who writes
> business e-mails in Hindi...
>
> I have never seen abreviated months (a native Hindi speaker should help).
> The only abbreviations for days of week I have seen at the Aligarh railway
> station are:
> Monday = सो॰, Tuesday = मं॰, Wednesday = बु॰, Thursday = बृह॰, Friday =
> शुक॰ (or शुक्र॰, the plate was not clearly readable), Saturday = शनि॰,
> Sunday = रवि॰. I would not be surprized if the ॰ punctuation were omitted.
>
> [characters] ङ  and ञ are not used in Hindi, they should be removed from
> index
>
> frenchspacing – I am afraid that it has no sense in Hindi as well as other
> Indic languages. The proper spacing was implemented in GNU Freefont (at
> least for Hindi) and is activated automatically by language switching. The
> rules are explained (in Hindi only, links to other languages switch to a
> different text) at
>
> https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%81
>
> punctuation: danda । and double danda ॥ should be listed as the most
> important punctuation
> quotes: either English double quotes or English single quotes are used
> (depends on the preference of an author and/or a publisher)
>
> number: Both Devanagari and Arabic digits are used, it is hard to say
> which one should be he default
>
> counters: the way how list items are numbered does not conform to the
> LaTeX system. I have a normative document how it should be done, it is
> written in Marathi and I probably have also a Hindi version. Unfortunately
> I have not found time to implement it so far.
>
>
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
> 2016-03-23 19:31 GMT+01:00 Javier Bezos <listas at tex-tipografia.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','listas at tex-tipografia.com');>>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on a new version of babel, with a new way to define
>> languages in a descriptive way, more than in a programmatic one (of
>> course, the latter won't be excluded because it's still necessary).
>>
>> The idea is to create a set of ini file like those you can find on
>>
>>
>> https://latex-project.org/svnroot/latex2e-public/trunk/required/babel/locales/
>>
>> They are tentative and some of them are incomplete. I'm working on the
>> code to read and 'transform' their data, but in the meanwhile I'd like
>> to improve the ini files. The first step in the roadmap is to provide
>> real utf-8 strings for captions and dates with current styles so
>> that they can be useable even without fontenc.
>>
>> Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> [Crossposted to xetex and luatex lists.]
>>
>> Javier
>>
>>
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