May 2006 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No compose characters possible with asian language setting
by akimbo337＠gmx.de 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello! I'm currently using SuSE 9.0 pro for both german and japanese input. This works fine so far, by setting the variables LC_CTYPE to ja_JP.UTF-8 and LANG to de_DE.UTF-8, but nevertheless I experienced a problem: With the LC_CTYPE set to japanese and an input method running (currently kinput2), I cannot type european language compose characters any more - at least the ones I used to produce with two sequent keystrokes ( ´ and e for é for example). The rest of my (german) keyboard layout works all fine, and with LC_CTYPE set to german, é's, à's, ô's, etc pose no problem, but then, of course, I cannot input japanese... This problem seems also to be existent for other language settings that use an input method, I tried it out with a friend who uses chinese input (also on SuSE 9.0 pro). We (my friend and I) are currently writing an article about asian language input with StarOffice/OOo, so we would really appreciate any help or hint concerning this problem. Thanks. Marcel Boeing

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scim packages: Hebrew, Greek
by h.w.meester＠umail.leidenuniv.nl 23 May '06

23 May '06

Hello, I've been running Scim on an ancient internetless laptop that I installed Xubuntu (Dapper, testing) on. A lot of the input methods work (Korean, for example) but although I installed everything concerning Scim, m17n, etc. and dependencies, I can't find the package(s) that support Greek, common Arabic and Hebrew. It seems it could be scim-tables ?.?.? , but this package is not available/existent on current Debian/Ubuntu package lists. There are the packages scim-tables-zh, -additional, and the like, but not just scim-tables. Did alphabeths such as Hebrew, Greek, m17n-ar-kbd, and also m17n-t-latn-post etc., end up in another package recently? Or is it something with m17n? I.o.w., which m17n-package could I have missed? Thanks a lot in advance. regards, Herman (PS I realise this is a Suse-list, but I couldn't get Suse running in this case)

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Composing Hinid Characters in Emacs after reloading files
by Stefan Müller 16 May '06

16 May '06

Hi, We use the input method devanagari-hindi-transliteration in emacs to type Hindi characters. Some of the characters are displayed as fusions (for instance `so'). After reloading the file the characters are displayed in isolation again. From http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SupportHindi I learned that there is a comand that does the fusion: > When you reload a file in which you had typed some hindi, the > characters are disjoint and not formed into words. To convert them > back, this works for me: M-x indian-to-devanagari-region, followed by > M-x devanagari-compose-region. My question is: Can this be done automatically? I.e. when I load a file can a header line or something be used to rearrange everything in the file? In addition, I printout messages to an emacs buffer and the characters I use there should be fused as well. Thanks and greetings Stefan -- Stefan Müller Universität Potsdam Tel: (+49) (+331) 977-2180 http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/

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Hindi Type1 Fonts
by Stefan Müller 13 May '06

13 May '06

Hi, I found out why the type1 conversion with the following call failed: /usr/sbin/cjk-latex-config --type1 updmap: This is updmap, version 1107552857 updmap: using transcript file `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.log' updmap: initial config file is `/etc/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg' updmap: configuration (updmap.cfg) unchanged. Map files will not be recreated. One has to change updmap.cfg vacously and then everything works. Thanks for the scripts! Stefan

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Re: [m17n] Latex and Hindi
by Stefan Müller 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi, I now have the Hindi fonts running. I tried to compile a description of the two documents I got and I hope that I did not forget any steps and that my colleagues will be able to replicate this. http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Lehre/LaTeX/hindi.html One thing is missing though. I did not get the Type1 fonts in the PDF files to work. In a previous mail I was pointed to the script /usr/sbin/cjk-latex-config. This script does the necessary things for the Chinese fonts. I had a quick look at the script, but it seems complicated. Is there an easy way to get the Type1 fonts for my Hindi examples? Thanks and greetings Stefan -- Stefan Müller Universität Potsdam Tel: (+49) (+331) 977-2180 http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/

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Latex and Hindi
by Stefan Müller 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi, I try to set up Latex for direct typesetting of Hindi text. I found a description of waht to do here: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/2004-July/006909.html However, the command ttf2tfm tituscbz.ttf -w tituscbz at Unicode@ failed. I think the options of ttf2tfm changed. As there were very convenient tools for Chinese in the suse distribution, I wonder whether there are any tools for Hindi. If not, does anybody know of a more up to date description of the Hindi-Fonts? Thanks and greetings Stefan -- Stefan Müller Universität Potsdam Tel: (+49) (+331) 977-2180 http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/ http://www.cl.uni-bremen.de/~stefan/Babel/Interaktiv/

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