[Cjk] Re: CJKTeX, Debian and other matters

[Janusz S. Bień]

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002  Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:

[...]

> I've misunderstood you.  You apparently want that AUCTeX switches
> automatically to CJKLaTeX mode if it sees the extension `.kjc',
> regardless whether
> 
>   %%% TeX-command-default: "CJKLaTeX"
> 
> is present or not.  

Switching to CJKLaTeX mode can mean in particular adding the
`TeX-command-default' line.

> Do you really think this is necessary?  Why?

Not exactly necessary, but convenient. 

First, I think (and I going to argue also with other authors of
various preprocessors) that the *.tex extension should be reserved for
files processed by {La,pdf}TeX. In consequence, files requiring some
preprocessor should have a distinct extensions. 

On large TeX distribution, say TeXLive, there are many sample files,
some of them requiring preprocessing. If the right kind of
(pre)processor can be inferred from the extension, we are closer
e.g. to automatic testing the consistency of TeX Live distribution.

On the other hand, the decision whether to use a preprocessor or not
is made before a file is created and it seems good to express it on
the first occasion, e.g. in the name of the file.


On Mon, 9 Dec 2002  David.Kastrup at t-online.de (David Kastrup) wrote:


[...]

> Another question: CJK documents presumably will declare some package
> to load.  CJK-specific adaptations could then easily be made to
> style/<packagename>.el and would get automatically used when a
> document calling upon that package would get loaded (when parsing is
> enabled), or when you started such a document and then said C-c C-n
> after it contains the CJK invocation.
> 
> This is the manner language-specific behavior changes (like
> interpretation of " when german.sty gets loaded) are usually
> implemented in AUCTeX.

`usually' seems to me too strong statement. Is this mechanism used for
anything else besides `german.sty'?

> 
> Is there a particular reason not to do so with regard to CJK?

And with regard to `polski.sty' for Polish :-) ?

Best regards

Janusz

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Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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