On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:45:30AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > My next plan, then, is to clean up the Thai language definition and > > submit it for inclusion in upstream babel, and thailatex won't be > > needed any more, only the fonts left for users to install. (Could > > someone suggest me who to contact?) > > This is very problematic, unfortunately. Babel is a core part of > LaTeX, however, it is essentially unmaintained. Its `todo.txt' file > (more than three years old) already talks about yet-to-add Thai > support. The origin is probably a Thai submission in 2005, as > indicated by entry `babel/3828' in the LaTeX bug database. Alas, this > entry is apparently non-public.
Thanks for the info. I wonder who submitted that. 2005 was before the composition of thai.dtx. The submission must be in raw thai.ldf. > On the other hand, it is very good that there is no `thai' option yet > in Babel, thus it is straightforward to simply provide a separate CTAN > package with the necessary Babel files, as Hin-Tak has pointed out. So, just continue shipping thailatex as currently done. OK. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ _______________________________________________ Cjk maillist - Cjk@ffii.org https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/cjk
