Re: newbie question: greek in ConTeXt?

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Monday, May 12, 2003 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

TAS> After using LateX for a while, I became interested in
TAS> ConTeXt and was immediately fascinated by the ease of use
TAS> and the logical structure of commands. However, for my
TAS> job, I need to typeset in ancient Greek (politoniko).
TAS> There are a couple of packages for LaTeX that can do that
TAS> (Teubner, psgreek e.g.), but can it be done in ConTeXt? I
TAS> already stumble whenever I try to set the language to
TAS> Greek; I get a couple of error messages (I use the
TAS> standard teTex-distribution on a Mac with OS X 10.2). Can
TAS> anybody point me to helpful documents or discussions?
TAS> Thanks a lot!

What kind of errors do you get?

Some time ago I did give the thing a quick try, and could do
something by using Gamma (ConTeXt compiled with an Omega
engine), and could do something; but since the greek-relevant
OCPs in Omega are defective, I dropped the thing.

Something that could probably be done is setting up a
typescript to use, for example, Claudio Beccari's fonts
(cbgreek). Also, there may be some Greek ConTeXt user (maybe
the one who contributed the Greek-specific language things?).
He might know more.

(Sorry for the quick answer, I will try to come out with a
draft for the cbgreek typescripts later :>)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta