On 07/05/2015 15:02, Jonathan Kew wrote: > On 7/5/15 13:22, Joseph Wright wrote: >> Included in that 'standard' set up is the final sigma rule for Greek >> text. For performance reasons that code has been set up to assume that a >> sigma is final if it is followed by a space, a control sequence or a >> character from the list >> >> ) ] } . : ; , ! ? ' " > > Would it be feasible to define this negatively instead -- something like > "a sigma is final if it is NOT followed by another letter"?
Possibly yes: I guess in the TeX context a catcode-based test would work reasonably well. I'll explore that. > A possible refinement is that a lone sigma, neither preceded nor > followed by another letter, should probably be lowercased as σ rather > than ς. One that needs input from a Greek speaker! > To see the result of what we implemented for Firefox, you can try > loading a testcase such as > > data:text/html;charset=utf-8, > <p style="text-transform:lowercase">ΣΑΒ ΑΣΒ ΑΒΣ Σ ΣΣΣ (Σ) > > in the browser, which displays it as "σαβ ασβ αβς σ σσς (σ)". (And I > notice Chrome and Safari have the same behavior, too.) Much the same as we do. -- Joseph Wright -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
