Re: [vntex-users] how do i get rid of ToC/index/references titles in vietnamese

[Reinhard K. <rei...@we...>]

Hello,

>>>>> <bog...@gm...> writes:

  > i am using vntex to typeset some documents; however, when i do a
  > \tableofcontent or \bibliography.. the titles appear in vietnamese
  > (instead of saying TABLE OF CONTENTS / BIBLIOGRAPHY /INDEX etc..);
  > how do i revert back to the normal behavior?

\usepackage[vietnam,english]{babel}

The last language is the default language.  You can switch between
languages:

  \selectlanguage{vietnam}
  ...text in vietnamese...
  \foreignlanguage{english}{a phrase in english}
  ...text in vietnamese...

  \begin{otherlanguage}{english}
  ...text in english...
  \end{otherlanguage}

  ...text in vietnamese...

  > also, the font (vnr) seems to have some weird problem with
  > characters like \d{m} (as in the sanskrit Sa\d{m}gha); the period
  > appears too close to the bottom of the 'm', making it almost
  > invisible.  To resolve t his problem, i had to switch back to cmr
  > when typing sanskrit/pali romanization.  is there another
  > workaround for this?

Thank you very much for reporting this.  I think that the problem is
not in the font itself but in the metrics.

VNR is supposed to support Vietnamese only.  For multilingual
documents it is better to use Latin Modern (\usepackage{lmodern})
which is a replacement for Knuth's Computer Modern fonts.  Latin
Modern supports all Latin languages except some African ones.  I don't
know whether there are all glyphs available people need for
transliterations, but composing glyphs like in CMR or VNR is still possible.

   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm

If you are interested in Latin Modern, please make sure you have the
latest version and if you enconter similar problems as with VNR,
please contact Boguslaw <B_J...@gu...> soon.

Boguslaw announced that he will release version 1.0 within the next
few weeks (I suppose end of the month because I think he wants to make
an announcement at the GUST conference).  It would be very nice if any
bugs you find can be fixed before.

There are certainly not many people who need \d{m} and most people do
not provide the feedback necessary for fixing such problems.  Hence,
your feedback is highly appreciated.

I would be very glad if you try Latin Modern and report problems to
Boguslaw.

Thanh, can you put the \d{m} issue into your TODO list?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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