On 2010-02-28, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
> I think we should output \textlatin for the latin characters as we do
> with \textgreek for greek characters.
I thought about this once, but this would make Greek even more the odd
one out, because e.g. Cyrillic does not work this way:
> Language English:
> \textcyr{\char254} \textgreek{a} a % ASCII
or
я α a % Unicode
> Language Russian:
> \textcyr{\char254} \textgreek{a} a % ASCII
or
я α a % Unicode
Latin characters in a text marked as Russion are not transliterated.
It is just Greek that even in Unicode converts Latin to Greek
> Language Greek:
> \textcyr{\char255} a \textlatin{a} % ASCII
or
я α \textlatin{a} % Unicode
This can be solved with
\addto\extrasgreek{\latintext}%
and then:
> Language Greek:
> \textcyr{\char255} \textgreek{a} a % ASCII
or
я α a % Unicode
Günter
