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Subject: TeX character sets and hyphenation
Message-ID: <47@cui.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 10:55:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cui.47
Posted: Wed Jun  3 10:55:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 06:26:09 EDT
Organization: University of Geneva/Switzerland
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We have been using the basic TeX distribution on our Suns for several months
now, and several of us have run into some problems trying to typeset articles
written in "foreign" languages.  What I would like to do is solicit information
from netland regarding what problems people have had with TeX when writing
in French or German specifically, and what they have done about it.
Our particular problems are that several of the special character constructions
such as \c{} often: (a) don't look right (requiring kludges to get it right),
and (b) upset the hyphenator (sometimes because of the kludges used in (a)).

Has anyone worked on a modified TeX or LaTeX to work with other languages?
We may be pushed into doing this ourselves (something we'd dread doing alone,
due to lack of time and expertise).  If we choose to do it, we'd appreciate
hearing from anyone who might be interested in sharing the workload with us.

All constructive responses are welcomed.  My apologies if this issue as arisen
previously.
-- 
Eugene Fiume
Centre Universitaire d'Informatique
University of Geneva, Switzerland
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