Re: Italic languages

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Ciao Giuseppe,

> Hello, I'm using the 2000 stable ConTeXt, english interface, and I have a
> small problem: \sp doesn't work to switch to spanish: it gives a "missing $
> inserted" error, and the output is a superscript rather than normal text.
Probably it means superscript!? (I cannot find the definition).
> So I need \SP to switch to spanish (at least, \SP does not give any error
> message); is this "feature" signaled somewhere?
I'm not sure whether \SP does it.

> (Btw, \sp for spanish doesn't work, \it is obviously kept for "italic"
> rather than italian ... what's wrong with us italic-languages-speakers? :->
And with German speakers and \ss vs. \SS
> Anyway, maybe some coherence in the language selection scheme ---everybody
> using UpperCase, that is--- could be nice)

Well using \language[it] works always. There are simply too many nice
two letter commands \it, \em, \bf and simply to many languages to make
it work consistently :-(

Tobias