ConTeXt Live didn't work because the default font (Latin Modern) has almost no Greek glyphs present.

Actually there's more to it, Greek letters seem to be given a weird treatment: when trying the sample file Vassilis posted, I see vowels with tonos are rendered as an apostrophe followed by the Latin equivalent letter (!), and -- except for the capital Kappa -- the other letters are obviously taken from Latin Modern Math Italic (so the absence of the glyphs from the roman fonts is not such a problem, but the result is typographically very poor). With XeTeX or LuaTeX, the glyphs are missing altogether, which is actually what I expected (of course I have to get rid of \enableregime first). I guess Mark II tries to be smart and fake Greek letters with Math Italic, but fails to render the letter with accents correctly. Then I try with Antykwa Toruńska which indeed has the glyphs:

\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] \setupbodyfont[antykwa]

First of all, these two lines don't change anything for me, I have to specify an encoding, but I don't know which one to use for Greek so I took my chances with ec and replaced the first line with “\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][ec]”. Then, with pdfTeX, the result is more or less the same as with Latin Modern (roman capital Kappa, italic small letters, 'e for epsilon with tonos). With XeTeX it's a bit better but the mu are missing (?), and with LuaTeX it looks right. My head hurts ... But isn't it possible to use Silvio Levy and Claudio Beccari's Greek fonts? They are part of the minimal distribution, and I see there is a whole typescript file for them (type-cbg), and I would expect to use them for Greek, rather than the Polish fonts. The only thing I don't know, actually, is which encoding to use (in LaTeX this would be LGR, I think, but it doesn't seem to work here). Arthur P-S: OK, on a second try the mu's are actually there with XeTeX as well ...

OK, that worked with XeTeX. Thank you all. Now, if I could just install the thing... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mojca Miklavec" To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" 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:

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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.

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I recently got a Windows Vista PC, and I am fighting with it all the time. I had installed ConTeXt in Mac OS X previously with no problems. I will disable User Account Control and try again today... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mojca Miklavec" To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:06 AM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Unicode greek in Context

On Feb 6, 2008 11:00 PM, Βασίλης Γκολφινόπουλος wrote:

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OK, that worked with XeTeX. Thank you all.

Now, if I could just install the thing...

What is wrong? Which OS?

You can try one of http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/ (if you don't have MikTeX or TeX Live)

And then run ./first-setup.sh cd tex . setuptex (if you're on unix)

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