[luatex] hyphenating ancient Greek

[Robin Fairbairns]

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:

> Le 12/06/2010 23:08, Khaled Hosny a écrit :
> >> As far as I understand you have to know in advance whether you are
> >> typesetting Turkish.  A static table for all languages isn't
> >> sufficient.
> >>
> >> It would be much more convenient if case folding wouldn't depend on
> >> the language, i.e. the Turkish "i" had a separate code point.
> >>
> >> However, I think it's solvable.
> > 
> > Well, tex hyphenation still kind of black art to me, but if the tables
> > are to be language specific, then we shouldn't it in the format, but
> > rather hook some (lua?) code to the language activation sytem that would
> > do that on the fly, right?
> 
> IMO, if Turkish is the only exception,

i doubt it is, but i don't know.  there are certainly other languages
that have dotted and un-dotted "i" in bother lower and upper case (i
_think_ ukrainian, but memory's not clear).

> it's better to set the non-Turkish
> \lccode's in the format, and let the the supporting macros for Turkish handle
> the few changes needed (with babel, it is easy to do using \(no)extrastrukish
> for example).

create one exception, and before you know where you are, it's taken over
the world.

using standard uc/lc tables is attractive, but one shouldn't assume it
will "simply avoid" the straightjacket we're already in, in latex 2e,
about the way encodings work.

robin