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Characters, Fonts, and Languages in PreTeXt

Section 9 General Language and Script Support

2016-12-08: this section is preliminary.
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HTML output works well if your source includes Unicode characters. Hyphenation is a non-issue, since text reflows and there is no flush-right support.
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It is a different story for , PDF, and print. So that is the focus in this sample document. You may not recognize the next subsection, but an explanation follows.
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Subsection 9.1 ὁ δὴ ἤτοι πρῶτός ἐστιν ἢ οὔ

ὁ δὴ ἤτοι πρῶτός ἐστιν ἢ οὔ.
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Subsection 9.2 Languages, Scripts, Subdivisions

The previous subsection has an xml:lang attribute on the subsection element, whose value is el indicating the Modern Greek language. So the entire subsection is being treated as characters from that language. There is a title, but it is not being affected now, and so is empty.
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The behavior should be entirely similar for part, chapter, section, and subsubsection.
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Subsection 9.3 Language and Script Examples

Other elements have language support. We are starting with foreign, which also italicizes the content.
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List 9.1. I Can Eat Glass
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From the Kermit Project a startling phrase in many languages.
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  • Modern Greek (monotonic), Italic: Μπορώ να φάω σπασμένα γυαλιά χωρίς να πάθω τίποτα.
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  • Korean, Italic: 나는 유리를 먹을 수 있어요. 그래도 아프지 않아요
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  • Hungarian, Italic: Meg tudom enni az üveget, nem lesz tőle bajom.
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  • Russian, Italic: Я могу есть стекло, оно мне не вредит.
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  • Spanish, Italic: Puedo comer vidrio, no me hace daño.
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  • Vietnamese, Italic: Tôi có thể ăn thủy tinh mà không hại gì.
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