On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Jörg Hagmann wrote: > A postscript to greek issues:
Thanks for the report. > > As I wrote, everything works fine now---with Mark II, which is what I > still use. > > When I try "context mygreekfile.tex", without any font specification, > the following characters are missing: > lower case: c (end of word sigma), m (mu), and s (sigma) > upper case: same > > If I specify font=Ibycus, it works fine > If I specify font=Teubner, I get no greek, just roman characters (but > the same tex file works when compiled with "texexec") > If I specify font=GreekGentium, I get no output (Invalid glyph index > (git 1714) ==> Fatal error etc. Again, this works with "texexec". > > I'm using recent minimals (Contextgarden) on Mac OS X Leopard and > ubuntu. > > If it's got something to do with my not knowing how to deal with fonts > in Mark IV (which is the case), just ignore this message. But if the > reasons are deeper, it might be of interest to you. No, that's a combination of my lack of enthusiasm for writing new documentation and your not reading the documentation which is provided (greekmodule.pdf, p. 3) :-) In a nutshell: when mkiv was new, I experimented around with support for Babel-like transliteration in mkiv, but it turned out to be very cumbersome and time-consuming because it has to be implemented for every font, one by one. I'm unlikely to go to this length because this ASCII input was just a stopgap when TeX was unable to digest 16-bit input. I've done it for a few fonts (such as GreekGentiumAlt), for my private amusement, but it just isn't worth the effort. The novelty of luatex lies just here: it processes utf8 by default, that's why I recommend using utf8 when writing Greek in mkiv; it works well in mkii, and there's no reason not to use it. The only thing that may be troublesome is when you have lots of old files. I have a converter written in python here which works reasonably well. Hans implemented one in lua (see $TEXMF/scripts/ context/lua/mtx-babel.lua) which is even better, but doesn't appear to work with the current version of mkiv. But I have to look at the default font, this one should work even with Babel. Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
