> I recently engaged myself in using LaTeX to produce a PDF document > in the Lao language. Since I did not find any suitable encoding I > felt myself forced to write lao.etx, lao.enc, laoenc.def etc files > to get the work done.
Please send me the stuff. Since support for Lao is almost identical to Thai support I could include it into the Thai framework of my CJK package. > The LAO encoding that I created works with TrueType fonts (converted to > Type 1) such as Saysettha, Alice, XiengThong etc, where the Lao > characters are in the Unicode range 0x0e80-0x0eff and ligatures for tone > mark and vowel combinations are in the Unicode private range starting at > 0xE000. > > There are still some small things to do on the kerning of the tone marks > and vowel signs, but these may be font specific so I did not put more > than necessary (ie ligatures) into the etx-file. Have you read my article on Thai in TUGBoat? https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb21-2/tb67lemb.pdf AFAIK, Lao does something similar, so it should be solvable within TeX. The current Thai implementation can be found in the CJK package (cjk.ffii.org). Werner _______________________________________________ fontinst mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/fontinst
