X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["2300" "Fri" "8" "October" "93" "15:53:52" "+0100" "Bernard GAULLE" "gaulle@CIRCE.FR" nil "62" "VT15 continuation Part II" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA01401; Fri, 8 Oct 93 16:11:49 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA12652; Fri, 8 Oct 93 16:11:47 +0100 Message-Id: <9310081511.AA12652@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1251; Fri, 08 Oct 93 16:11:13 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 7391; Fri, 08 Oct 93 16:11:00 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 7389; Fri, 08 Oct 93 16:10:57 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 15:53:52 +0100 From: Bernard GAULLE Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: VT15 continuation Part II Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1063 The volunteer task I'm coordinating about multilingualism has already published his first draft vt15d02.tex you can retrieve from the good servers. This draft is just the first part of the job which has at least 4, it proposes some definitions that will be usefull for the rest of the task. So we would greatly appreciate if it could be widely discussed either publicly or privately but always with a message to me returning the commonly admitted conclusions, if any. Rather than waiting for comments and stay idle we have chosen to continue our work. Thus we ask again for other volunteers that would accept to collect information about the typographic mechanisms that would be necessary in LaTeX v3 in order to solve the maximum of situations in any language... Exciting! Please look again at the next sections to be discussed: Part II, LANGUAGE HANDLING ========================== Section 1: Hyphenation loading mechanism Section 2: Hyphenation exceptions handling Section 3: Related file names standard Section 4: Switching mechanism Part III, TYPOGRAPHY HANDLING MECHANISMS ======================================== What are the required mechanisms to apply typographic features for various (numerous) languages? For example we don't know when it is required to apply the french guillemets BUT we must know that there are cases where specific characters (here the french guillemets) need to be inserted in front of each line and at \everypar. Section 1: Line level Section 2: Paragraph level Section 3: Page level Section 4: Column level Section 5: Table row and column levels Section 6: Two-sides sheet level Section 7: Math levels (text and display) Section 8: Sectioning level as well as start/end of documents Section 9: \shipout level Part IV, OTHER LANGUAGE REQS ============================ This part will address features not processed in previous parts and not allready solved in the current LaTeX version or via appropriate style files. So it isn't exhaustive. Are they specific mechanism required to process the following: Section 1: Bibliography Section 2: Index Section 3: Glossary Section 4: Typographic abbreviations Section 5: Country Fonts Section 6: Table of..., abstracts, summaries, keywords,... Section 7: ?? Thanks for your effort to cooperate, --bg