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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

address@hidden wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Henri Lesourd wrote:
>
> > >
> > OK, the fact that you could not load the font "fireflysung" seems
> > to be related to the problems you describe in your previous mail,
> > namely : "cannot see any character appear on the menus", as you
> > said ; for being unable to input anything, I guess that if no
> > font at all is available, the input is impossible as well :-(.
> >
> >
> > >
> > The problem you have is with the TrueType support ; for some
> > reason, TeXmacs is unable to load the default unicode Korean
> > font : this is the root cause of the problem.
> >
> > It is rather likely that the current stable version is compiled
> > with TrueType support disabled, or either, compiled for english
> > language. This is the reason why it doesn't exhibit this problem.
> >
> > Therefore, to enjoy Korean fonts inside your TeXmacs, you should
> > check if the FreeType module in your Linux install includes
> > the Korean fonts (especially : the one which cannot be found
> > by TeXmacs, namely, the "fireflysung" font), because it seems
> > rather likely that the Korean TrueType fonts are missing in
> > your system (=> thus, it leads to TeXmacs being unable to load
> > them...).
>
>
> Indeed, following your suggestion I can now enjoy inputting-outputting 
> korean characters.
How did you solved the problem exactly ?

> O.K. I have found several bugs in CVS TeXmacs.
>
> 1.Import and export of latex files containing CJK characters are 
> buggy: CJK characters are not correctly imported or exported. Same 
> goes with scheme import and export. But html and verbatim import and 
> export are O.K.
Noted.

> 2.It takes too much time to load CJK True-Type fonts: When I first 
> input CJK characters from the keyboard, I have to wait one or two 
> minutes to see the characters appear on the texmacs screen. But after 
> that, inputted CJK characters are displayed on the screen without any 
> delay.
I would guess that you waited one or two minutes because TeXmacs compiled
the fonts. It should not happen again, except the first time you start
using a font (or a particular size of a font) you never used before.

If all the time, for the very same font, each time you fire TeXmacs anew,
you need to wait one or two minutes to be able to input Korean characters,
then we have a real problem.

> 3.In maple interface, simple calculation like "2+3" seems to take 
> infinite loops.
This one is a Maple problem, I don't know the current state of the maple
interface.