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Steffen Wolfrum

20 Aug 2004 20 Aug '04

6:57 p.m.

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:57:07 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:

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Hi,

I am about to edit a book with quotes in ancient (polyphonic) greek. How can this be done in ConTeXt?

Well, you can always use aleph; see typ-omg.tex and m-gamma.tex for details. I can also send you a sample file if you like. But if you are not adventurous;-) I suspect there is a solution that will work for pdfetex.

Best Idris

Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex. Could someone help me? Steffen

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Adam Lindsay

21 Aug 21 Aug

6:04 p.m.

New subject: Ancient Greek

Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:57:05 +0200:

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Well, I'd love to use aleph - no doubt! But, as I work with MacOS(X) I fear I have to find a solution that will work for pdfetex.

Could someone help me?

Hmm. What's your timeframe? I'm working on XeTeX drivers for ConTeXt that should get to a 90% solution soonish... the question will then be what "weird" ConTeXt features will you need? For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's AAT features as well as OTF features. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Henning Hraban Ramm

6:37 p.m.

New subject: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay:

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For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's AAT features as well as OTF features.

Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

Adam Lindsay

6:43 p.m.

New subject: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:37:18 +0200:

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Am 21.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb Adam Lindsay:

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For those not aware, XeTeX is a very interesting eTeX variant that hooks into MacOSX's advanced typography. It's Unicode-native, and uses native Mac fonts without any TeXFont-y conversion necessary. It supports Apple's AAT features as well as OTF features.

Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?

Oops! I meant to link: http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/ Mailing list at: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Henning Hraban Ramm

10:08 p.m.

New subject: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

Am 21.08.2004 um 20:43 schrieb Adam Lindsay:

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Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage? Oops! I meant to link: http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/

Oh, another fine & free project of SIL! (I very much like their Gentium font, just switched a bimonthly magazine that I set with InDesign to Gentium as bodyfont - some of "my" authors tend to use ancient greece quotes, and before I could never set them in a appropriate font.) I'm looking forward to your tXeTonConTeXt and hope it gets part of the XeTeX project itself to spread it widely! Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

Steve Peter

6:46 p.m.

New subject: XeTEX (was: Ancient Greek)

On Aug 21, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

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Sounds very cool. Where's its homepage?

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=xetex Steve

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