Re: Fwd: Typesetting modern Greek (UTF8) with ConTeXt

[Adam Reviczky via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

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Thanks Hanx for the fix!

>> Just curious: you're still in mkii?
No, I was just trying to compare an old project (nothing important) with
lmtx, otherwise I wouldn't have even noticed.

Adam


On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 8:14 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 8/12/2022 2:57 AM, Adam Reviczky wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > I get a 'Nonletter' error with *fmtutil* for the mkii greek patterns
> (from
> > the latest cont-tmf.zip 2022-08-05 17:17).
> >
> > Is that an issue with texlive's *fmtutil* itself or something wrong with
> > the mkii greek pattern file?
>
> Actually, we never had a greek hyphenation pattern file, only for
> ancient greek. Modern greek in mkii has not encoding defined (we're
> talking 2005 and before when Tomas made the greek encoding that dealt
> with utf in pdftex). It has to do with 'setting what are letters' and
> these modern greek patterns have plenty different.
>
> You can patch lang-grk.mkii:
>
> \installlanguage
>    [\s!gr]
>    [\c!spacing=\v!packed,
>     \c!leftsentence=---,
>     \c!rightsentence=---,
>     \c!leftsubsentence=---,
>     \c!rightsubsentence=---,
>     \c!leftquote=\greekleftquot,
>     \c!rightquote=\greekrightquot,
>     \c!leftquotation=\greekleftquot,
>     \c!rightquotation=\greekrightquot,
>      % we're missing an encoding for greek
>     \s!patterns=\s!agr,
>     \s!mapping=\s!agr,
>     \s!encoding=\s!agr,
>     % but one can use mkiv / lmtx anyway
>     \c!date={\v!day\ \v!month\ \v!year}]
>
> At least you get something. In mkiv and lmtx we have both.
>
> Just curious: you're still in mkii?
>
> Hans
>
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