From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11857 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:35 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <309686518.20030410154035@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049982185 25728 80.91.224.249 (10 Apr 2003 13:43:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:43:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 10 15:43:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193cKT-0006gY-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:43:01 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C72610B74; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:43:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smtp1.libero.it (smtp1.libero.it [193.70.192.51]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F3C10B67 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:46 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from OBLOMOV (151.29.143.10) by smtp1.libero.it (7.0.012) id 3E95468600013B03 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:46 +0200 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.63 Beta/7) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11857 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11857 Hello, I don't know if Idris is following the group (I hope he is), but anyway I have a couple of questions on the support for Greek in ConTeXt, Omega and thus also Gamma. The need is that of typesetting classical greek snippets in a latin (Italian, but could be English) context. I thought that ConTeXt+(e-)Omega would be the best thing in town, so I prepared a small test file: \usemodule[gamma] \mainlanguage[italian] \starttext Possiamo scrivere tranquillamente in italiano; questo non ci priva per\`o della possibilit\`a di scrivere in greco: vediamo subito l'alfabeto minuscolo e maiuscolo (notare come j dia \greek{j} e c dia il sigma di fine parola \greek{c}): \startgreek a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \stopgreek \`E ovviamente possibile usare segni diacritici come gli accenti (\greek{`a, 'a, =a}) o gli spiriti (\greek{w}); osserviamo come questi assumano automaticamente la posizione corretta nel caso di lettere maiuscole (\greek{`A, 'A, =A, A, Ai}) \stoptext While it seems to work pretty well most of the time, there seem to be some problems; I'd like to know where they arise from and if and how they can be fixed. The problems: Combination Doesn't give