Re: [NTG-context] Greek: GR or EL? Czech: CZ or CS? UK: Ukrainian or ...

2007/12/5, Mojca Miklavec :

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- deo -> ? (if at all) gmh - German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500) goh - German, Old High (ca.750-1050)

No! "deo" ist modern German in old orthography (pre-2005).

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... one can use two types of quotes: - „" U+201E/U+201C & ‚' U+201A/U+2018 (sorry, a bug in gmail reencodes

1.) In German, Slovenian, Croatian, (maybe in other languages as well) them)

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- »« U+00BB/U+00AB & ›‹ U+203A/U+2039 It is also common two write «text ‹text› text» in German.

That's Swiss (de_CH). In de_DE the guillemets point inwards. (Difference between de_CH and fr: in French they have French spacing, i.e. space between punctuation and word.)

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4.) deo \mainlanguage[de][alternative=old] ??? (no idea what that is about)

The old rules should't be used any longer :-)

Don't think too short: You might want to typeset older texts in their typography. Or if you work for FAZ guys. I think we should keep the current syntax with mkii and allow better control

in the mkiv code.

It's a pity that ConTeXt uses non-standard codes at all. But I guess we should keep backwards compatibility. Perhaps we could introduce the ISO codes as ISO.de_DE or the like? Greetlings, Hraban