Karl, thanks a lot for the explanation.
> P.S. Looking ahead: technically, the biggest thing is that ptex cannot > read the 8-bit files since the 8-bit chars don't work as such in the > Japanese encodings. They have to be convered to use ^^. That is > essentially what the *-ptex.tex patterns are about. Is it because of "translate file" (remapping 8-bit characters to other positions) or something else? We could auto-generate the patterns in proper form out of repository if needed (then the patterns would also be equal to the "main ones" and "maintained" - in case that authors send updates or fixes etc.), but maybe I would need to give a try to ptex first. Once I understand how it works (or rather doesn't work) ... I'm sure we'll find some solution :) Is there any simple test file & building instructions? Mojca
