Re: Ancient Greek

Re: Ancient Greek

[Steffen Wolfrum]

Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:57:07 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum 
> <context@st.estfiles.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am about to edit a book with quotes in ancient (polyphonic) greek.
> > How can this be done in ConTeXt?
> 
> Well, you can always use aleph; see typ-omg.tex and m-gamma.tex for 
> details. I can also send you a sample file if you like. But if you are not 
> adventurous;-) I suspect there is a solution that will work for pdfetex.
> 
> Best
> Idris


Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) 
I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex.

Could someone help me?

Steffen

Re: Ancient Greek

[Adam Lindsay]

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:57:05 +0200:

>Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) 
>I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex.
>
>Could someone help me?

Hmm. What's your timeframe?
I'm working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that should get to a 90%
solution soonish... the question will then be what "weird" ConTeXt
features will you need?

For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks
into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native
Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's
AAT features as well as OTF features.
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XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
> For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that 
> hooks
> into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native
> Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports 
> Apple's
> AAT features as well as OTF features.

Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?



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Re: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

[Adam Lindsay]

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200:

>
>Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
>> For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that 
>> hooks
>> into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native
>> Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports 
>> Apple's
>> AAT features as well as OTF features.
>
>Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?

Oops! I meant to link:
<http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/>
Mailing list at:
<http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex>
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Re: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

[Steve Peter]

On Aug 21, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex

Steve

Re: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 21.08.2004 um 20:43 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
>> Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?
> Oops! I meant to link:
> <http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/>

Oh, another fine & free project of SIL!
(I very much like their Gentium font, just switched a bimonthly 
magazine that I set with InDesign to Gentium as bodyfont - some of "my" 
authors tend to use ancient greece quotes, and before I could never set 
them in a appropriate font.)

I'm looking forward to your tXeTonConTeXt and hope it gets part of the 
XeTeX project itself to spread it widely!


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