Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 21:45:09 +0100 From: se@mi.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/FAQ/LaTeX - New directory Message-ID: <199503212045.AA14149@FileServ2.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE> Resent-Message-ID: <15704.795837426@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org> "cvs commit: src/share/FAQ/LaTeX - New directory" (Mar 21, 12:17)
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On Mar 21, 12:17, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
} Subject: cvs commit: src/share/FAQ/LaTeX - New directory
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} src/share/FAQ/LaTeX - New directory
I was wondering about some way to build
an international version of LaTeX.
This will be a major check list item to
users in Germany, Linux distributions come
with german hyphenation rules here ...
I'm not sure, how to ease building LaTeX
for a multi language environment. I could
think of:
1) a special make target to build a
german/italian/french/... LaTeX.
2) Have some patch applied by default,
that builds LaTeX for the 10 most
often used languages.
3) Put patches in the FAQ/LaTeX directory,
that add support for those languages,
if the LaTeX distribution has already
been unpacked into the work directory.
4) Use different ports/print/latex
directories for different languages.
The cost of German hyphenation rules is
some 60KB of source code, and lots of
valuable LaTeX table space consumed.
Most other languages are cheaper ...
I'd prefer to have one LaTeX directory,
that gets the necessary hyphenation rule
files copied in by a prefetch make rule.
What do you think about this ?
Regards, STefan
PS: If you are interested, I could write
a short description of the steps to
build a German LaTeX. Except for the
names of the best hyphen files to use,
they will probably apply to most other
european languages as well ...
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