[luatex] hyphenating ancient Greek

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi,

> 
> \documentclass[a5paper,12pt]{article}
> \usepackage[greek]{babel}
> \usepackage{ifluatex}
> \usepackage{ifxetex}
> \ifluatex


\lccode`χ=`χ
\lccode`α=`α
\lccode`λ=`λ
\lccode`ε=`ε
\lccode`π=`π
\lccode`ὰ=`ὰ


> \usepackage{luaotfload}
> \usepackage[EU2]{fontenc}
> \renewcommand*{\greektext}{}
> \else
> \ifxetex
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \setmainfont{Theano Didot}
> \renewcommand*{\greektext}{}
> \else
> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
> \fi
> \fi
> \begin{document}
> \showhyphens{χαλεπὰ}
> ἡ ῥητορική  ἐστιν  ἀντίστροφος  τῇ διαλεκτικῇ: ἀμφότεραι  γὰρ  περὶ τοιούτων  τινῶν  εἰσιν  ἃ κοινὰ  τρόπον  τινὰ  ἁπάντων  ἐστὶ  γνωρίζειν  καὶ  οὐδεμιᾶς  ἐπιστήμης  ἀφωρισμένης: διὸ  καὶ  πάντες  τρόπον  τινὰ  μετέχουσιν  ἀμφοῖν: πάντες  γὰρ  μέχρι τινὸς καὶ ἐξετάζειν καὶ ὑπέχειν λόγον καὶ ἀπολογεῖσθαι καὶ κατηγορεῖν ἐγχειροῦσιν.
> \end{document}
> 
> Am I missing something?



... to set lccode for every greek letter (as far as understand it, but someone else should confirm).

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 29--29
[][] \EU2/cmr/m/n/12 χα-λε-πὰ


Patrick

... whishing that this could be done at the engine level....