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diff --git a/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greek-fontenc.def b/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greek-fontenc.def index 1e5d781b49..0ebda57015 100644 --- a/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greek-fontenc.def +++ b/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greek-fontenc.def @@ -248,15 +248,14 @@ % .. _uclclist: % -% UPPERCASE -% ~~~~~~~~~ +% Case changing +% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ % % UPPERCASE (all-caps) is generated with ``\MakeUppercase``. The % implementation of this command changed in June 2022 [ltnews35]_. % -% According to Greek typographical tradition, diacritics (except dialytika, -% iota subscript, macron, and breve) are placed before capital letters in -% Titlecase and dropped in UPPERCASE. +% According to Greek typographical tradition, diacritics (except dialytika) +% are placed before capital letters in Titlecase and dropped in UPPERCASE. % % Different conventions exist for the treatment of the `mute iota`_ with % uppercase letters. The traditional typographic form and the most common @@ -267,6 +266,14 @@ % glyphs with adscript are a stylistic choice, provided by the font. In the % CB Fonts, a small capital adscript iota is used. % +% The "Latin" diacritics *macron* and *breve* are used to denote the +% length of vowels. They are sometimes used in dictionaries and textbooks +% but not part of the Greek orthography. There is no established rule +% regarding their handling in uppercase. LaTeX used to keep them but +% the `Unicode reference implementation`__ drops them. +% +% __ https://icu.unicode.org/design/case/greek-upper +% % Up to 2022/06, macro substitutions in the ``\@uclclist`` could be used to % get the expected behaviour: % |