Re: Ancient Greek in output PDF

["Pablo Rodríguez" <oinos-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org>]

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.

If hyphenation is also desired, in ConTeXt you may load different
hyphenation patterns for one language, such as in:

    \setuplanguage[en][patterns={en, agr}]
    \setupbodyfont[dejavu]
    \starttext
    \hyphenatedword{processor μηχανή}

    \hyphenatedword{processor \agr μηχανή}
    \stoptext

Altought you have the same minimal number of letters for the first and
last hyphen in the word as the “parent” language (as shown in the second
line).

You might achieve this in LaTeX too.

> Here's my ideal (I think): pandoc is smart enough to see a block of
> Greek text and your Greek font gets applied to it. That seems a bit
> unlikely, but I wonder how hard it would be to create a filter that uses
> regex to look for Greek text and surround it with the appropriate tags.

If the filter is required for PDF generation only, I think it isn’t
required. I would love to have proper language tagging in pandoc-2.0,
such as in:

    [καλόν]{:grc} means “beautiful”.

I mean, :lang is way more useful for real language mixing. Of course, I
may type [καλόν]{lang="grc"}, but this isn’t lightweight (see
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/895).

Just in case it helps,


Pablo
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