Here is a link to some interesting info on Gaelic fonts. https://www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/oduibhin/mearchlar/fonts.htm
The web page author, Ciarán O Duibhín is a retired computer scientist and prominent Irish language (Gaeilge) advocate, particularly known in Ulster (Northern Ireland) Best wishes Keith On Tue, 6 Jan 2026, 14:13 Henning Hraban Ramm, <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 06.01.26 um 13:59 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: > > Am 06.01.2026 um 12:46 schrieb Jean-Pierre Delange via ntg-context: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> Is ConTeXt able of typesetting text in Insular Gaelic (Irish/Scottish)? > >> > >> As I see, LaTeX, with the babel package, renders Gaelic in Latin > >> typography (with diacritical marks). > >> > >> But there are two fonts that do the job (apart from babel and which > >> are in utf8 standards); > >> > >> one is commercial and the other seems to do the job (see attached file). > > > > % https://www.gaelchlo.com/clonna2.html > > Thank you! > > I posted the example to > https://fosstodon.org/@context/115848510984504421 as an answer to the > post from where I got the blog link. > > The rendering looks much better than JP’s example – I don’t know if > that’s really made with LaTeX as the PDF only says it’s converted with > GhostScript. The hinting(?) is strange – some characters are somewhat > blurry, others a bit pixely. > > Hraban > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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