OK, that worked with XeTeX. Thank you all. Now, if I could just install the thing...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Unicode greek in Context > On Feb 5, 2008 8:24 PM, Βασίλης Γκολφινόπουλος wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am evaluating context for using it to write long greek documents. So >> far I >> have not succeeded in typesetting unicode greek in live-context. I have >> tried scanning the documentation and mailing list archive with no >> success. I >> must admit I am not a very technical user. This is what I have tried so >> far >> (unseccessfuly): >> >> \enableregime[utf-8] >> \mainlanguage[gr] >> \starttext >> Hello world! >> Καλημέρα κόσμε! >> \stoptext >> >> Is there something wrong with that? Sorry if I am wasting your time -- if >> there is a good "RTFM" answer I would not mind. > > ConTeXt Live didn't work because the default font (Latin Modern) has > almost no Greek glyphs present. You need to use another font, but then > again - the garden might be lacking good greek fonts. You shold add at > least > > \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] > \setupbodyfont[antykwa] > > and choose XeTeX or LuaTeX. > > But then again - I bothered Taco so much about the urge to upload the > latest version of ConTeXt to CTAN, and completely forgot that the > latest LM font release broke the ConTeXt live as well. > > ConTeXt live is based on TeX Live 2007 + latest ConTeXt - we will > probably move it to use the "new minimals". In the meantime I will try > to replace the Latin Modern fonts. > > The misfunction of live ConTeX should not be the showstopper. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
