Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:

Well, this is pretty old news, so I'm not sure if a reply is still called for; whatever, here comes: I'm not quite sure why Giuseppe is trying to use eomega instead of plain ole pdftex. I mean, you're not writing Greek in Unicode, right? If you're still interested, drop me a line, I have a home-cooked Greek package for ConTeXt which works very well on my box (which is teTeX on Mac OS X); I could send you the files. And the iota subscript is usuall done with an | after the vowel, as in a|. The combination =A (alpha with circumflex) does not occur in classical Greek without a breathing, but

HTH

Thomas

i think that it makes sense to figure out some mechanism/interface that works well with both systems , so how does your package look like? Hans

On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:37 PM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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Idris sent me this asking me to forward it. My reply follows.

===8<==============Original message text=============== Hi Giuseppe,

I was digging in the archives and came across this; I don't think I ever saw this message (must have been busy at the time). Did you ever get an answer? I'm sure that editing the otp's will get you the result u wanted quite easily, but in the year since u wrote this u've probably figured that out already:-)

Best Idri

[NTG-context] (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma Giuseppe Bilotta ntg-context@ntg.nl Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:35 +0200

Hello,

I don't know if Idris is following the group (I hope he is), but anyway I have a couple of questions on the support for Greek in ConTeXt, Omega and thus also Gamma.

The need is that of typesetting classical greek snippets in a latin (Italian, but could be English) context. I thought that ConTeXt+(e-)Omega would be the best thing in town, so I prepared a small test file:

\usemodule[gamma]

\mainlanguage[italian]

\starttext

Possiamo scrivere tranquillamente in italiano; questo non ci priva per\`o della possibilit\`a di scrivere in greco: vediamo subito l'alfabeto minuscolo e maiuscolo (notare come j dia \greek{j} e c dia il sigma di fine parola \greek{c}):

\startgreek a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \stopgreek

\`E ovviamente possibile usare segni diacritici come gli accenti (\greek{`a, 'a, =a}) o gli spiriti (\greek{w}); osserviamo come questi assumano automaticamente la posizione corretta nel caso di lettere maiuscole (\greek{`A, 'A, =A, A, Ai})

\stoptext

While it seems to work pretty well most of the time, there seem to be some problems; I'd like to know where they arise from and if and how they can be fixed. The problems:

Combination Doesn't give

Moreover, I don't know how to write the subscribed iota. My system is a MiKTeX 2.2 with (e-)Omega 1.15. Does anybody have an idea?

-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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My reply:

Well, I'm pretty sure the bug is in the OTPs that come with Omega (which is pretty funny, considering that Yannis *is* Greek ...). I guess that when the rougher edges in Aleph are fixed we'll start correcting the OCPs :)

-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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