Re: Euro document now available
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîc? wrote:
>
> At "1.3 Standards" you are talking about "8-bit systems". Why you don't
> mention ISO-8859-16 (latin10)? Only ISO-8859-15 (Latin9) is there...
> ISO-8859-16 also has euro support.
Will do.
>
>
> In "Chapter 4 Localisation issues", I see you are talking about
> /etc/locale.alias. Do you know who is responsable for it? Every time
> when I make an upgrade I have to change myself back the line "romanian
> ro_RO.ISO-8859-2" to "romanian ro_RO.ISO-8859-16"...
File a bug against locales package this file should be a conffile.
> In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.alias is even worse, what is that
> rumanian? Unfortunatelly this word is also in English dictionary, while
> romanian is not.
File a bug against the xlibs package (Branden)
>
> In "4.2.2 Font configuration", I have ISO8859-16 fonts, you can mention
> the place where it can be taken:
> "http://httpd.chello.nl/fonturi/index-en.html";.
Are they package in Debian?
>
>
> In "5.2.12 LaTeX", I have a latin10.def file, I can provide an
> latin9.def too, if necessary.
Yes, please.
>
> "FIXME: What about the cent? Is it provided in tetex-eurosym?"
> No, tetex-eurosym provide only euro symbol. Textcent is provided by
> textcomp.sty, if this is not different.
>
Ok. Will add.
>
> In "5.3 Applications that do not support the euro character" you said:
> "Problems with LyX are similar to LaTeX, there is a need for a new
> inputenc." As I mentioned earlier, I have latin9.def and latin10.def.
> Someone care to have it? I will submit it at CTAN.
>
This could be pretty nead, the Spanish TeX users list had some
problems to fix these issues without one. Could you send these files to me too?
Also please file a bug against tetex-base (I can do it for you) so it can
provide this files at /usr/share/texmf/dvips/base/ until they appear at CTAN.
Regards
Javi
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