From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Non-European fonts: tetex-base or -extra? (was: Bug#100332: New package splitting scheme for teTeX in Debian) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:57:51 +0200
> Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To what extend do we want internationlization? Should people be able to > > produce documentation in Russian, Greek or Vietnamese with tetex-base > > alone? > > Good question. Personally, I'd say that most packages that build > documentation with tetex probably do it in english, with other european > languages (and not greek) making up a good part of the rest. Therefore > my suggestion is to keep to what you can typeset with the basic PS fonts > (which would mean PsNFSS, CM and EC for tetex-base). > > On the other hand, my view may be overly european-centric. Atsuhito, > what do you think? For example, is there an increasing number of > packages that build documentation translated to east asian languages? Looks difficult to answer, but * I agree that packages that build documentation with _TeX_ do it in english. Of course there are plain texts written in native language but it is irrelevant here. * Usually, to compile a TeX file of asian language, it would be necessary to include many, many additional TFM files (and/or TrueType or PS? fonts in case of generating PDF). * These fonts (and macros) are maintained separately (from teTeX) so it will be difficult for us to provide tetex-base (or similar package) which can handle such documentation. cjk-latex (or latex-cjk?) might be a good candidate but, of course, it needs additional cjk fonts. For example, cjk-latex needs fonts in jtex-base (base files for a Japanized TeX) to compile a japanese TeX file. * There are some documentation packages, for example debian-reference, which build documentation with TeX in asian languages too, so they need internationalized TeX environment (can you guess what I write here?), but I suspect it is important for them to be able to compile documents in many language even if they need many packages and disk spaces (and hard work). In short, tetex itself is not yet internationalized at present so Frank's view is, at least, acceptable, I think. Thanks for your good jobs, I enjoy teTeX 3.0 recently. Regards, 2005-10-26(Wed) -- Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
