Sorry for not having answered before, Thomas.
>>> - Finally, for ancient Greek, there is the ancientgreek module
>>> http://
>>> modules.contextgarden.net/t-greek which I find superior to all Greek
>>> typesetting in LaTeX (because I wrote the module).
Is this module contained in the standard ConTeXt distribution or has it
to be downloaded separately?
After reading the the three files contained in the module. I wonder
whether they provide hyphenation for Greek. Do they?
> I must admit that I've been too lazy to really test XeTeX, so I may
> be wrong here. You can use Unicode input with the module; the only
> difference would be that you have to wrap all Greek passages in
> \localgreek{} commands or \start ... \stop pairs. I guess XeTeX
> provides proper hyphenation for Greek, but
> - the module has support for more fonts than XeTeX;
> - does XeTeX allow relative scaling of fonts?
> Anyway, only Hans and Taco know to what extent I will have to rewrite
> everything when luatex and support for OpenType fonts are there.
XeTeX allows relative scaling of fonts.
> Yes, I started with already existing modules, and it took me a while
> (and lots of help here on the list) to write my own code. I never
> actually read any manual cover to cover, but the big manual is almost
> always open on my computer for reference. I just finished typesetting
> a book with ConTeXt, complete with dozens of cross-references,
> indexes, bibliography. Nothing very complicated, but it's wonderful
> to see that things work. There are still two or three problems, but
> they are fairly harmless. I love donig my own presentation styles
> with ConTeXt and metafun. The more I use ConTeXt, the more amazed I
> am...
>
> Hope this can inspire you a bit
Yes. Tinkering (and asking in the mailing list ;-)) is the way of learning.
I have discovered the “Typographic Programming” document style.pdf)
which seems very interesting, but unfortunately it is far for being
complete. And I guess Hans is too busy to finish this book anytime soon.
Thanks,
Pablo
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