Re: Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

> Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still 
> called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is 
> trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not 
> writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you're still interested, drop me a 
> line, I have a home-cooked Greek package for ConTeXt which works very 
> well on my box (which is teTeX on Mac OS X); I could send you the 
> files. And the iota subscript is usuall done with an | after the 
> vowel, as in a|. The combination =A (alpha with circumflex) does not 
> occur in classical Greek without a breathing, but <r and <A definitely 
> ought to work.
>
> HTH
>
> Thomas

i think that it makes sense to figure out some mechanism/interface that 
works well with both systems , so  how does  your package look like?

Hans


> On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>> Idris sent me this asking me to forward it. My reply follows.
>>
>> ===8<==============Original message text===============
>> Hi Giuseppe,
>>
>> I was digging in the archives and came across this; I don't think I 
>> ever saw
>> this message (must have been busy at the time). Did you ever get an 
>> answer?
>> I'm sure that editing the otp's will get you the result u wanted 
>> quite easily,
>> but in the year since u wrote this u've probably figured that out 
>> already:-)
>>
>> Best
>> Idri
>>
>> [NTG-context] (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma
>> Giuseppe Bilotta ntg-context@ntg.nl
>> Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:35 +0200
>>
>> 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{<r, >w}); osserviamo
>> come questi assumano automaticamente la posizione corretta nel
>> caso di lettere maiuscole (\greek{`A, '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
>>   <r                       rho with spirit
>>   =A                       capital alpha with circumflex
>>   <A                       capital alpha with spirit
>>
>>
>> Moreover, I don't know how to write the subscribed iota. My system
>> is a MiKTeX 2.2 with (e-)Omega 1.15. Does anybody have an idea?
>>
>> -- 
>> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>>
>>
>> ===8<===========End of original message text===========
>>
>> My reply:
>>
>> Well, I'm pretty sure the bug is in the OTPs that come with
>> Omega (which is pretty funny, considering that Yannis *is*
>> Greek ...). I guess that when the rougher edges in Aleph are
>> fixed we'll start correcting the OCPs :)
>>
>> -- 
>> Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>>
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