On 01/26/2017 01:50 AM, John Muccigrosso wrote:
> The only drawback I see here is that you have to clearly mark out the
> Greek in your markdown, whereas, if you're happy with the appearance of
> the Greek characters in your chosen font, you don't have to do anything
> and they just appear. (The impetus for my question came from someone
> wanting - I think - to turn fairly simple text files into nice-looking
> PDFs automatically.)

You don’t need language tagging in the source text for PDF generation
either with LaTeX or with ConTeXt.

A fallback font works exactly like that: you define the typeface you
need for the Unicode ranges you need (Greek and Greek extended being
just two of them). I provided the right command for polyglossia.