On 18 Oct 2005, at 15:51, Hans Hagen wrote:

> has to do with the definition of 'beta' and 'stable' and such; form  
> the trafic on the tex live list i conclude that debian is in the  
> process of getting tex packages more up to date
>
> Hans
>

Dear Hans,

In relation to your reply above I replied to Kári Hreinsson in  
relation to getting Icelandic letters with this:
> Dear Kári,
>
> This works for me.
>
> \usetypescript[modern][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm]
>
> \enableregime[utf]
> \setupencoding[default=ec]
> \useencoding[ec]
>
> \starttext
> aábcdðeéfghiíjklmnoópqrstuúvxyzþæö
> AÁBCDÐEÉFGHIÍJKLMNOÓPQRSTUÚVXYZ\Thorn{}ÆÖ
> \stoptext
>
> Try that. I am using ConTeXt through the T2005 install by Gerben  
> Wierda.
>

but on looking at my output again the ö and Ö (o umlaut) do not  
appear when using the 'modern' typescript above. They do appear using  
'palatino'. Is this a problem with modern?

Best wishes,
Charlie


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