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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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committer | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/systems/unix/tex-fpc/MFT/iby/README b/systems/unix/tex-fpc/MFT/iby/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..802aae4137 --- /dev/null +++ b/systems/unix/tex-fpc/MFT/iby/README @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +This directory contains files that help installing an ancient Greek +font in TeX-GPC. The font includes a full set of diacritical marks, +the preclassic letters digamma, quoppa and sampi, and the lunatic +variant of sigma. + +The font was originally cut by Firmin Didot(*1764, +1836), put into +METAFONT files by Silvio Levy in 1987 and improved by Pierre A. MacKay, +the author of Ibycus4. Here I used version 4.5 as of +2004-10-27. + +Preparation: +------------ +Get the packages ibygrk and levy from CTAN:fonts/greek and copy +files from levy and ibygrk directories into this directory, with +the shellscripts getlevy and getiby. + +Link METAFONT's and TeX's master directories to this directory, so +you can run mf and tex from here. Make sure MFinputs contains +Knuth's computer modern fonts. + +Installation: +------------- +Run ibyfonts to build and install the .tfm and .pk fonts. +Run ibymacros to install macro files into TeXinputs. + +Usage: +------ +From your .tex file \input agr and enclose Greek between \GK and +\RM. + + +Typing Greek characters +----------------------- +You don't need a monster keyboard or even the ALT-key to enter +Greek text into your TeX---ASCII suffices. The ASCII representation +used here follows the Beta Code from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. +(http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html) + +Greek Letters: +Since the Latin alphabet emerged from the Greek one, you enter most +Greek letters as their corresponding ASCII character. +But there are some exceptions: +Greek ASCII +eta h +theta q +ksi c +ypsilon u +phi f +chi x +psi y +omega w +digamma v +koppa k+ +sampi s+ (lowercase only) +lunatic +sigma c + +Diacritics: +rough breathing: ( +smooth breathing: ) +diaeresis: + +acute: ' +grave: ` +circumflex: = +iota subscript: | +dubious(dot under): ! + +Order of diacritics with lowercase letters: +letter, diaeresis, breathing, accent, iota subscript. E.g. u"(=| +A diaeresis (+) won't work together with a circumflex. + +Order of diacritics with uppercase letters: +breathing, accent, letter, iota subscript (=W| +A breathing is mandatory before an accent. + +Punctuation +Period . +Apostroph ' (if after a vowel, use a{}', not a') +Colon : +Question Mark ; +guillemets << >> + +Look at test.tex and sappho.tex for examples. + +Installing the Type 1 fonts in teTeX3.0: +---------------------------------------- +List the search directory with `kpsewhich -show-path=.pfb' +I selected ~/texmf from that list. +From the ibygrk/fonts directory do: + mkdir ~/texmf/fonts + cp -rp * ~/texmf/fonts + texhash + +Finally I added the command line option `-u +iby' to dvips +in the dvipdf script. + +Aug. 2008 +Wolfgang Helbig |