[tex-hyphen] TR : missing hyphen points in Greek

[Dimitrios Filippou]

Hello all.

After a lengthy absence, I'm now back at home.  I haven't had the time
to read the messages copied to me, but here's a quick reply to your
latest message:

1) Claudio, you can find some polytonic Unicode Greek texts in Wikisource:

http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CF%81%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82_%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CF%8C%CF%82_%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85
http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%97_%CE%B5%CF%83%CF%80%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%BA%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%83%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%B7
http://el.wikisource.org/wiki/%CE%A4%CE%BF_%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%BC%CF%80%CF%81%CF%8C_%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%AC%CE%BE%CE%B9

2) Mojca, the Perl script to convert the Greek patterns to Unicode was
never released into the public domain.  That script was sent to me by
Peter Heslin, but I had to do several manual corrections in the
patterns.

3) Claudio, the "duplicate" entries in the Greek patterns (e.g. α2ί
α2ί) you mention in a previous message are not really duplicates.  (If
they were duplicates, TeX would chock immediately on making the FMT
files.)  The reason why you see duplicates is because Unicode defines
two very similar-looking accents: GREEK TONOS (0384) and GREEK OXIA
(1FFD).  In almost all fonts, these two accents look the same.  But in
few fonts, GREEK OXIA leans to the right, while GREEK TONOS is
vertical (have a look of "α2ί α2ί" in Tahoma fonts).  That's why I
created those "duplicates", which must remain there.  More comments
will follow in future messages, as I read through your discussion...

Best regards,

df

>
> -------------------------------------------
> De : Mojca Miklavec[SMTP:MOJCA.MIKLAVEC.LISTS at GMAIL.COM]
> Date d'envoi : lundi 28 juillet 2014 17:40:09
> À : Claudio Beccari
> Cc : Guenter Milde; TeX Hyphen Group
> Objet : Re: missing hyphen points in Greek
> Transféré automatiquement par une règle
>
> Dear Claudio,
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote:
>>
>> I just wanted to tell you that I manually upgraded the the pattern file for
>> LGR encoded pattern relative to polytonic Greek.
>>
>> When Dimitrios returns home, please, would you please send me a short
>> significant text in modern polytonic Greek, written with utf-8 encoding,
>> because I have no access to such kind of texts. I tested the upgraded
>> polytonic patterns, I actually used a polytonic stretch of ancient greek
>> text, but of course ancient Greek does not contain any neologism, modern
>> names,  nor Greek renderings of foreign words.
>>
>> In a day or two I start the upgrading of the ancient Greek patterns.
>
> I would suggest you to wait for an automated way to do it.
>
> It is important to get one conversion done properly, but once we have
> both patterns to compare the conversion, an automated script could do
> the hard work automatically.
>
> I forgot where to find the script that converted the current patterns
> to Unicode. (At the end I'll find it in our repository ;) But we could
> start from scratch.
>
> Mojca