[XeTeX] An (almost) complete cyrunicode.tex

Pavel Stranak stranak at ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz
Sun Jul 1 22:18:49 CEST 2007


John,

I would like to be mistaken, but I believe our Greek colegue knows  
this and perhaps more about Macedonian.
He seems to be speaking from greek nationalistic political positions,  
rather than from linguistic ones.
In Greece there are many people who believe there are no Macedonians,  
the Macedonian region belongs to Greece, etc.
It would be best not to have this kind of outcries on a technical  
list about a piece of linguistic software.

Best, Pavel


On 1.7.2007, at 21:43, John Was wrote:

> Macedonian is a Slavic language - similar  to Serbo-Croat but I  
> seem to
> recall that it has an accentual system which sets it apart.  I  
> think the
> political map has changed a bit since Aristotle's day (!), and even in
> classical Greece the Macedonians were considered a bit of an  
> uncouth bunch
> on the fringes of Greece proper (Alexander the Great's father  
> Philip tried
> to give it more of a civilized veneer, and - if the story is  
> accurate - even
> persuaded Euripides to move there, which would no doubt have been easy
> enough since the Athenians didn't exactly treat him well, and never  
> awarded
> him a first prize for any of his plays, though at least they didn't  
> make him
> drink poison, which was Socrates' fate).
>
> I might be wrong about the accent but I do recall when Presisdent  
> Tito died
> that a linguistically competent friend of mine who listened to the  
> funeral
> oration said 'That man must be a Macedonian - he's speaking with a  
> tonic
> accent.'
>
> Not a lot to do with Unicode typesetting, this, but one needs some  
> light
> relief from time to time!
>
> Best
>
>
> John
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Apostolos Syropoulos" <asyropoulos at yahoo.com>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"  
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>>
>>> Your list covers Bulgarian too; to complete the coverage of South
>>> Slavic languages you have to add two letters unique to Macedonian
>>> language:
>>
>> What is this language? I was under the impression that Macedonians
>> were Greek people and not slavic people and of course Aristotle did
>> not speak and write using Je or Kje. You must be refereeing to  
>> something
>> else,
>> right?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Apostolos
>>
>>
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