[NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I would like to make the exclamation mark active within my Greek environment; it should remain a normal letter outside of these commands and environments. (Why? Exclamation marks aren't used in Greek, and in mkii, I had mapped it to the sublinear dot which is used for epigraphical

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I would like to make the exclamation mark active within my Greek environment; it should remain a normal letter outside of these commands and environments. (Why? Exclamation marks aren't used in Greek, and in mkii, I had mapped it to the sublinear dot

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: forget about the past, think about what kind of functionality you want for instance, we need a language dependent feature that remaps characters so, what are the specs; maybe other languages need similar things (there is already something

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: forget about the past, think about what kind of functionality you want for instance, we need a language dependent feature that remaps characters so, what are the specs; maybe other languages need similar things

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: so, you define a fallbackfont for your greek font Hans That looks good; I'll have a go at it (I guess the fallback can be enabled on the typescript level, right?). However, I'm still left wondering if it doesn't make sense to make the !

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jul 7, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: so, you define a fallbackfont for your greek font Hans That looks good; I'll have a go at it (I guess the fallback can be enabled on the typescript level, right?). However, I'm still left wondering if it doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] active characters in mkiv (and mkii)

2008-07-07 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jul 7, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: no, active chars are a pain ... because they need to adapt to all kind of situations then, i'm glad that i got rid of the active : cum suis of course we can add a new core-spa feature that remaps chars (kind of like french spacing) OK, OK, you