brannerchinese

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I'm a lexicographer of Chinese. I love TeX and regex, and other small but powerful tools.

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Aug 6	revised	Suppressing figure numbers in KOMA-Script captions specified more exactly what I am looking for, following comment
Aug 6	comment	Suppressing figure numbers in KOMA-Script captions @GonzaloMedina: That's true, and that's what I would like. I'll edit to make that clear.
Aug 6	comment	Suppressing figure numbers in KOMA-Script captions Thanks. Some authors prefer captions alone to appear with figures, without figure numbers. Go figure.
Aug 6	asked	Suppressing figure numbers in KOMA-Script captions
Aug 6	revised	Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes? added `\relax`
Aug 6	comment	Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes? Thanks. I looked for a while at `bigfoot`, but the documentation is scanty and I wasn't able to find many examples on-line. It seemed easier to stick with better-document packages or basic TeX and LaTeX commands.
Aug 6	comment	Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes? @HeikoOberdiek: Ah, thank you very much.
Aug 6	revised	Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes? Added necessary percent signs.
Aug 6	asked	Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes?
Aug 5	comment	How to set superscript footnote mark in the text body but normalsized in the foot? This works very nicely, with one problem: very long footnotes no longer break across pages, even when `\footins` is set manually to values small enough that footnotes should be forced to break. The fatal features seems to be the use of `\parbox`. Any thoughts on how to repair this feature?
Jul 26	accepted	Mark indexed entries in the text itself?
Jul 24	comment	Mark indexed entries in the text itself? More than exactly what I had in mind!
Jul 23	revised	Mark indexed entries in the text itself? fixed grammar error
Jul 22	asked	Mark indexed entries in the text itself?
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear Consider the case of 火星文 ["Martian", a Chinese version of L33t], in which people purposely write in non-standard glyphs. Your position seems to be that I can't typeset this material without substantial manual intervention. I think it would be useful to have a straightforward way of typesetting any graphs in a given font, as long as the font contains them, without special bracketing as in your example.
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear I agree that it's mistaken usage, but as a scholar, I must be able to quote even mistaken usage, if that is what my source supplies to me. Their reason for being wrong is not important. In the present case I am automating the processing of text; whatever graphs appear in the original must appear in the XeLaTeX-typeset form, even if they are not standard usage. If they appear in a CJK text, it would be best to use a CJK font to typeset them, just as in the original. I'm grateful for your work here, but it seems that you are calling for more manual normalization than is efficient.
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear Here is an example that does not involve numbers: "有人用○来代表平声字、●来代表仄声字。" [Some people use ○ to stand for syllables in the píng tone and ● for syllables in the zè tones.] This is a legitimate usage unrelated to numerals, but neither of the shapes from the Geometric Shapes plane appears. XeLaTeX is suppressing them. My question is: how do I get them to appear, right or wrong?
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear My basic feeling is that if a glyph appears in a font, I should be able to use that font's version of that glyph, without making other sorts of corrections.
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear No, no, I agree that the symbol is not correct, but it is in fact in use by some people. And because it is in use, I have to be able to typeset text that contains it. If you search for, say, "二○一二年" on a search engine, you will find countless examples of this sort of thing. For example, shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node2314/node2319/node2404/n30571/… , etc. etc. etc. I already use a script to replace ○ with 0 or 〇 in my materials, but that does not solve the real problem, which is that I have to be able to render the actual text used by people I am citing. I can't correct them.
Jul 2	comment	One of the glyphs used for zero in Chinese does not appear ● and ○ are both important in the representation of traditional Chinese prosody, apart from the fact that ○ often stands in for zero.