Re: first attempt at japanese text with Lout

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

David Kuehling <address@hidden> writes:

> I just managed to get japanese text working with Lout.  Although this is
> just a badly hacked proof of concept, I thought I post it here.
> Japanese line breaking rules aren't properly implemented yet.  It uses a
> filter script written in Tcl (8.3 or newer) for converting japanese
> characters into Lout commands.  Yes, that's terribly slow.

Cool!  Can't you re-use hyphenation patterns from some LaTeX
distribution?

Ludovic.