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diff --git a/language/greek/greek-inputenc/README b/language/greek/greek-inputenc/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0e78de83f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/language/greek/greek-inputenc/README @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +greek-inputenc +############## +Greek input encoding definition files +************************************* + +:Author: Apostolos Syropoulos, Dimitrios Filippou, Günter Milde +:Date: 2019-07-11 +:Copyright: © 1999 Dimitrios Filippou, + © 2000 Apostolos Syropoulos, + © 2013 Günter Milde <milde@users.sf.net> +:Licence: This work may be distributed and/or modified under the + conditions of the `LaTeX Project Public License`_, either + version 1.3 of this license or any later version. +:Abstract: This package provides input encoding definition + files for Greek for use with inputenc_. + + +News +==== + +.. class:: borderless + +===== ============ ============================================================= +1.3 2013-05-17 New maintainer. +.. Unicode support with the standard "utf8" option. +1.4 2013-07-16 bugfix for GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO WITH PSILI/DASIA, +.. drop "greek" from macro names for ancient characters, +.. ``\ypogegrammeni`` and ``\prosgegrammeni`` instead of ``|`` +1.4.1 2013-07-18 bugfix: wrong breathings psilioxia -> dasiaoxia +1.5 2014-09-14 Use named accent macros for Greek accents, +.. Documentation update (warn of ``;``-conversion!) +1.5.1 2015-06-04 Fix definition of spacing diacritical characters in utf8.dfu. +1.6 2015-08-05 Fix output of accented characters with "textalpha" if the + current font encoding is not LGR (wrap in \ensuregreek), +.. Map GREEK ... SYMBOL characters. +1.7 2019-07-11 Use LICR macros instead of transliteration and remove + ``\textbullet`` substitution character from iso-8859-7.def. + (Missing characters will now result in the standard + ``inputenc`` error message.) +===== ============ ============================================================= + + +Files +===== + +`<lgrenc.dfu>`_ + Greek input encoding file for UTF-8 comprising Greek letters and other + symbols present in the LGR encoding. + + This file requires ``lgrenc.def`` version 0.8.2 or newer from the + greek-fontenc_ package. + + The literate source was converted with PyLit_ to reStructuredText_ and + with Docutils_ to `<lgrenc.dfu.html>`_. + +`<iso-8859-7.def>`_ + Greek input encoding file for `ISO 8859-7`_ by Apostolos Syropoulos. + +`<macgreek.def>`_ + Greek input encoding file for Macintosh (ELOT 823) by Dimitrios Filippou. + [#transliteration]_ + +Test examples and output: + :utf-8: `<greek-utf8.tex>`_, `<greek-utf8.pdf>`_ + (comprehensive example) + :iso 8859-7: `<inputenc-iso-8859-7.tex>`_, `<inputenc-iso-8859-7.pdf>`_ + (basic test) + +.. [#transliteration] Currently, these files translate to a Latin + transcription particular to the LGR font encoding. Drawbacks include: + Latin characters in PDF strings (hyperref_ bookmarks and TOC sidebar, cf. + greekhyperref.pdf__), no kerning between accented characters. + +__ http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greekhyperref.pdf + + +Installation +============ + +If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation +manager. + +Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the files ending in ``.def``: + +* Download and unpack `greek-inputenc.zip` or just download the required + file(s). + +* Copy, move, or link the files to a suitable place in the `TeX Directory + Structure` (TDS_) and run ``texhash``, or place them in the current working + directory (e.g. for testing). + +Usage +===== + +Pass the encoding name as option to inputenc_. + +The "utf8" option only defines characters that are accessible in declared +font encodings. In order to load the Greek definitions in ``lgrenc.dfu``, +specify the LGR font encoding with fontenc_, the "greek" option for +babel_, or both, e.g. :: + + \usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc} + \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} + +or :: + + \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} + \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} + +See `greek-utf8.tex`_ for an example. + +Warning +------- + +LGR is no "standard font encoding". Latin characters and some other ASCII +symbols are mapped to Greek equivalents if LGR is the active font encoding. +(See usage.pdf_ for a description of this Latin-Greek transliteration.) + +This means you need an explicit font-encoding switch for Latin words and +abbreviations in Greek text, e.g., +not ``\foreignlanguage{greek}{((ηία αντίσταση 750-kΩ))}`` +but ``\foreignlanguage{greek}{((ηία αντίσταση 750-\textlatin{k}Ω))}``. + +Special care is also required with the **question mark characters**: + +* The Unicode standard says character ``003B SEMICOLON`` (and not 037E) is + the preferred character for `Greek question mark`. +* The LGR font encoding maps the semicolon to a middle dot (ano teleia), while the + Latin question mark is mapped to the erotimatiko. + +As a result, only the deprecated character ``037E GREEK QUESTION MARK`` +works with both, Xe/LuaTeX and 8-bit TeX. + +Alternatively, the `textalpha` and `alphabeta` packages from greek-fontenc_ +can be loaded with the "keep-semicolon_" option. + +.. References + ========== + +.. _ISO 8859-7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7 + +.. _LaTeX Project Public License: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt +.. _PyLit: http://repo.or.cz/pylit.git +.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html +.. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html +.. _TDS: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds + +.. _babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel +.. _fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc +.. _greek-fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc +.. _hyperref: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref +.. _ibycus-babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ibycus-babel +.. _inputenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/inputenc +.. _lgrx: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lgrx +.. _usage.pdf: http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/babel/contrib/greek/usage.pdf +.. _keep-semicolon: + http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/greek/greek-fontenc/textalpha.sty.html#keep-semicolon |