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Re: Removing ThaiLaTeX



On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> On Di, 21 Mai 2013, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:

>>   latex-fonts-thai-tlwg
>>   latex-fonts-sipa-arundina
>
> That is for you, right?

Yes.

>> I think it's a bit unexpected to users. Why should one install a CJK package
>> to typeset Thai documents? What about the huge unused font sets it pull in?
>
> Yes, I know.
>
>> Could you split babel-thai out of cjk?
>
> No. I am following upstream in the splitting into collections.
> If you want to propose something for upstream's change of collections,
> we would have to hurry, as next week (27) is freeze time.
>
> THe problem is that we (upsream) recently consolidated the lang and doc
> collections. Unsplitting would start an avalance of each and every
> langauge wanting to have its own collection again.
>
> Sorry, but that is the current status.

Then, how can (Thai) users be recommended of swath? Let -lang-cjk
recommend it? How about -lang-cjk being unusable (to Thai users) without
the Thai fonts?

Regards,
--
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/


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