thailatex for Debian
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This package provides Thai fonts and babel-based Thai support for LaTeX.


Document Composing
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You can see how to compose a Thai LaTeX document in the README file.
Starting from version 0.4.3, your document can be in TIS-620 or UTF-8.
To use UTF-8, you just add a preamble '\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}'.
TIS-620 documents do not require extra preamble.


Preprocessing
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As Thai has no word delimitor, you need some processing to make TeX wrap
lines at proper positions.  Currently, preprocessing with programs like 
`swath' (available in Debian) or `cttex' (currently removed from Debian,
but is still accessible from its upstream SVN [1]) is recommended.  These
programs analyze Thai text in your document with dictionary look up
and insert word break commands {\wbr} at word boundaries, so that TeX
knows where to break lines.

  [1] svn co http://linux.thai.net/svn/software/cttex/trunk cttex

With swath, a quick command to do so is:

  $ swath -f latex < yourdoc.tex > yourdoc.ttex

or if you prefer cttex:

  $ cttex -W < yourdoc.tex > yourdoc.ttex

If you use UTF-8, swath has an extra option '-u u,u' to read/write documents
in UTF-8:

  $ swath -f latex -u u,u < yourdoc.tex > yourdoc.ttex

Please consult the document of the corresponding packages for the full
options of each program.

After this preprocessing, you can compile your document with usual LaTeX 
programs, for example:

  $ latex yourdoc.ttex
  $ dvips yourdoc.dvi

or with pdflatex:

  $ pdflatex yourdoc.ttex

and so on.