From: Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Jean-Pierre Delange <adeimantos@free.fr>
Subject: Re: rewrite for Greek in the wiki
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 16:08:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fcfbfba-ca33-560c-3982-49f62e60fa6d@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad8faf6e-289a-5091-de1e-7c849042cdcd@gmx.es>
Thank you very much about this accurate "mise au point", Pablo !
Le 21/01/2023 à 13:16, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context a écrit :
> Dear list,
>
> just in case it might help, I’ve rewritten the Greek entry in the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Greek
>
> Although nobody seemed to have mentioned them (afaIk), there are two issues:
>
> 1. Hyphenation patterns are different for ancient, monotonic and modern
> polytonic Greek. Greek ortography was polytonic before 1982.
>
> ConTeXt includes patterns for ancient and monotonic Greek, but none for
> modern polytonic Greek
> (http://mirror.ctan.org/language/hyph-utf8/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-el-polyton.tex).
>
> Ironically, modern polytonic Greek patterns would be required to typeset
> both the act and the decree that introduced the monotonic ortography.
>
> 2. Greek doesn’t seem to have language-dependent commands (such as
> \currentdate).
>
> In both cases, Hans will reply that nobody asked for any of them.
>
> Of course, I totally agree. AfaIk, nobody asked for these features.
>
> Just in case it might help,
>
> Pablo
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-21 12:16 Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-01-21 13:13 ` Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context
2023-01-22 16:48 ` Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2023-01-21 15:08 ` Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context [this message]
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