[XeTeX] TECkit Mapping Editor

[BPJ]

Den ons 3 nov. 2021 21:44Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> skrev:

> Hi Dominik,
>
> I'm afraid it's unlikely (in my opinion) that any further development
> will be done on that tool.
>
> What I'd suggest is to look for a programmer-oriented text editor or IDE
> that can be configured to conveniently run arbitrary tools command-line
> tools (e.g. from a "Build" menu or similar), and perhaps also has
> configurable syntax coloring features that can be set up to recognize
> the TECkit keywords, etc.
>

I have done so in Vim successfully some years ago, including writing a
rudimentary syntax file. If anyone is interested I can see if I can find
it. (It is on one of the hdds from my old desktop. I have a docking station
so I can access them relatively easily.)

/bpj



> Jonathan
>
> On 03/11/2021 18:20, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> > The documentation for TEC mapping files mentions the Mapping Editor. But
> > a) I can't find it for Linux, and b) it "does not handle mapping
> > descriptions written as Unicode text; it is strictly an 8-bit editing
> > environment."  Is there any chance that these limitations, especially
> > the latter, might be addressed in future?  Especially for Asian
> > languages that have widely-used transliteration schemes and multiple
> > alphabets (like Sanskrit), TECket mapping has moved way beyond its
> > original purpose of mapping legacy 8-bit charsets.
> >
> > Best,
> > Dominik
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Professor Dominik Wujastyk
> > <https://apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/wujastyk>
> > ,
> >
> > Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
> > ,
> >
> > Department of History, Classics, and Religion
> > <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
> > ,
> > University of Alberta, Canada
> > .
> >
> >
> > South Asia at the U of A:
> > sas.ualberta.ca <http://sas.ualberta.ca/>
> >
> > SSHRC research: The Suśruta Project <http://sushrutaproject.org>
>
>
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