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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.20b.dev: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
-<meta name="dcterms.rights" content="© 1997 Apostolos Syropoulos, Claudio Beccari, Johannes Brahms, © 2013 – 2022 Günter Milde." />
+<meta name="dcterms.rights" content="© 1997 Apostolos Syropoulos, Claudio Beccari, Johannes Brahms, © 2013 – 2023 Günter Milde." />
<title>babel-greek</title>
<link rel="schema.dcterms" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"/>
<style type="text/css">
@@ -791,10 +791,12 @@ mstyle.mathscr, mi.mathscr {
<main id="babel-greek">
<h1 class="title">babel-greek</h1>
<p class="subtitle" id="babel-support-for-the-greek-language-and-script">Babel support for the Greek language and script</p>
-<dl class="docinfo simple">
+<dl class="docinfo">
+<dt class="version">Version<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
+<dd class="version">1.13 (<a class="reference internal" href="#changelog">changelog</a>)</dd>
<dt class="copyright">Copyright<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="copyright">© 1997 Apostolos Syropoulos, Claudio Beccari, Johannes Brahms,
-© 2013 – 2022 Günter Milde.</dd>
+© 2013 – 2023 Günter Milde.</dd>
<dt class="licence">Licence<span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd class="licence"><p>This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt">LaTeX Project Public License</a>, either
@@ -812,7 +814,7 @@ version 1.3 of this license or any later version.</p>
<p><cite>babel-greek</cite> is a contributed package providing comprehensive
support for the Greek language and script via the <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a> system.
Document authors can select between the <em>monotonic</em>
-(single-diacritic), <em>polytonic</em> (multiple-diacritic) and
+(single-diacritic), <em>polytonic</em> (multiple-diacritic), and
<em>ancient</em> orthography of the Greek language.</p>
</div>
<nav class="contents" id="contents" role="doc-toc">
@@ -849,8 +851,9 @@ Document authors can select between the <em>monotonic</em>
<dd><p>Description of the <a class="reference internal" href="#lgr-latin-transliteration">LGR Latin transliteration</a> and the <a class="reference internal" href="#greek-numerals">Greek numerals</a>.
[<a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>]</p>
</dd>
-<dt>test-*</dt>
-<dd><p>Documented test sample documents.</p>
+<dt>test-*.tex</dt>
+<dd><p>Documented test samples.
+[<a class="reference external" href="test-greek.pdf">test-greek.pdf</a>, <a class="reference external" href="test-greeknum.pdf">test-greeknum.pdf</a>, <a class="reference external" href="test-athnum.pdf">test-athnum.pdf</a>]</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</section>
@@ -882,7 +885,7 @@ in the TeX search path.</p></li>
ending in <span class="docutils literal">.dtx</span> through LaTeX.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The last steps can be automated using the Unix <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)">make</a> tool.
-The provided <a class="reference external" href="Makefile">Makefile</a> defines the targets</p>
+The repository sources include a <a class="reference external" href="https://codeberg.org/milde/greek-tex/src/branch/master/babel-greek/Makefile">Makefile</a> defining the targets</p>
<dl class="field-list simple">
<dt><span class="docutils literal">all</span><span class="colon">:</span></dt>
<dd><p>(re)build packages, documentation, and tests,</p>
@@ -919,26 +922,41 @@ package are not removed.</p>
</section>
<section id="usage">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#toc-entry-4" role="doc-backlink">Usage</a></h2>
-<p>Use the “greek” document option or pass the “greek” option to Babel,<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-1" id="footnote-reference-3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>
-e.g.:</p>
+<p>To <strong>load Greek language support</strong> with Babel, use the <span class="docutils literal">greek</span>
+document option or pass the <span class="docutils literal">greek</span> option to Babel. For example,</p>
<pre class="code latex literal-block"><code><span class="keyword">\usepackage</span><span class="name attribute">[greek,english]</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>babel<span class="name builtin">}</span></code></pre>
-<p>For polytonic Greek, set the language attribute “polutoniko”, either
+<p>activates support for Greek text parts in an English document.<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-1" id="footnote-reference-3" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>2<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p>
+<p>For ancient Greek, set the language attribute “ancient”, either
after loading Babel</p>
<pre class="code latex literal-block"><code><span class="keyword">\usepackage</span><span class="name attribute">[greek,english]</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>babel<span class="name builtin">}</span>
-<span class="keyword">\languageattribute</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>greek<span class="name builtin">}{</span>polutoniko<span class="name builtin">}</span></code></pre>
+<span class="keyword">\languageattribute</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>greek<span class="name builtin">}{</span>ancient<span class="name builtin">}</span></code></pre>
<p>or as modifier</p>
+<pre class="code latex literal-block"><code><span class="keyword">\usepackage</span><span class="name attribute">[greek.ancient,english]</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>babel<span class="name builtin">}</span></code></pre>
+<p>Similarly, the attribute “polutoniko” selects the modern polytonic Greek
+language variant,</p>
<pre class="code latex literal-block"><code><span class="keyword">\usepackage</span><span class="name attribute">[greek.polutoniko,english]</span><span class="name builtin">{</span>babel<span class="name builtin">}</span></code></pre>
-<p>Similarly, the attribute “ancient” selects the ancient Greek language
-variant.</p>
-<p>For details see <a class="citation-reference" href="#" id="citation-reference-1" role="doc-biblioref">[babel-greek.pdf]</a> and the <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a> documentation.</p>
-<p>Input of Greek characters is possible as literal characters (α … Ω)<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-2" id="footnote-reference-4" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>3<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>, as LICR macro (<span class="docutils literal">\textalpha{} ... \textOmega</span>), or via the <a class="reference internal" href="#lgr-latin-transliteration">LGR
-Latin transliteration</a> (a … W)<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-3" id="footnote-reference-5" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>4<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>. See
-<a class="citation-reference" href="#" id="citation-reference-2" role="doc-biblioref">[usage.pdf]</a> and the example files provided with <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a>.</p>
+<p>The <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a> core provides two commands to <strong>select the active language</strong>:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><p>The declaration <span class="docutils literal">\selectlanguage{greek}</span> switches to the Greek
+language,</p></li>
+<li><p>the function <span class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\foreignlanguage{greek}{&lt;some</span> text&gt;}</span> sets
+its second argument in Greek.</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p>Both ensure support for the Greek script and select Greek
+case-changing and hyphenation rules.
+For details see the <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a> documentation and <a class="reference external" href="babel-greek.pdf">babel-greek.pdf</a>.</p>
+<p>Input of Greek characters is possible</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><p>as literal characters (α … Ω)<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-2" id="footnote-reference-4" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>3<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>,</p></li>
+<li><p>as LICR macro (<span class="docutils literal">\textalpha{} ... \textOmega</span>),</p></li>
+<li><p>or via the <a class="reference internal" href="#lgr-latin-transliteration">LGR Latin transliteration</a> (a … W)<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-3" id="footnote-reference-5" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>4<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a>.</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p>For details and caveats, see <a class="reference external" href="test-greek.pdf">test-greek.pdf</a> and the example files
+provided with <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a>.</p>
<aside class="footnote-list superscript">
<aside class="footnote superscript" id="footnote-1" role="doc-footnote">
<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#footnote-reference-3">2</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
-<p>Alongside other languages that will be used in the document.
-The <em>last</em> language option sets the document’s main language.</p>
+<p>The <em>last</em> language option sets the document’s main language.</p>
</aside>
<aside class="footnote superscript" id="footnote-2" role="doc-footnote">
<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#footnote-reference-4">3</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
@@ -946,43 +964,45 @@ The <em>last</em> language option sets the document’s main language.</p>
</aside>
<aside class="footnote superscript" id="footnote-3" role="doc-footnote">
<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#footnote-reference-5">4</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
-<p>only with LGR fonts</p>
+<p>only with 8-bit <a class="reference external" href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greek-fontenc-doc.html#lgr">LGR</a> fonts</p>
</aside>
</aside>
</section>
<section id="greek-text-fonts">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#toc-entry-5" role="doc-backlink">Greek text fonts</a></h2>
<p>A list of <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/topic/font-greek">Greek text fonts for use with LaTeX</a> is available at CTAN.</p>
-<p>The non-standard LGR <a class="reference external" href="https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/base/encguide.pdf">font encoding</a> is used for typesetting Greek with
-“traditional” 8-bit TeX engines (pdfTeX). Fonts in this encoding include
+<p>The non-standard <strong>LGR</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/base/encguide.pdf">font encoding</a> is used for typesetting Greek with
+“traditional” <strong>8-bit TeX</strong> engines (pdfTeX). Fonts in this encoding include
the <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete">CB fonts</a> (matching CM), <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/grtimes">grtimes</a> (Greek Times), <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/kerkis">Kerkis</a> (matching
URW Bookman), and the <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/gfs">GFS font collection</a>.
The package <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cbfonts-fd">cbfonts-fd</a> registers the CB fonts as Greek substitute for
the Computer Modern and Latin Modern font families. For other font
families, declaring Greek fonts as supplement for matching Latin font
families can be done with the <code class="latex">\DeclareFontFamilySubstitution</code>
-macro (see section <cite>Providing font family substitutions</cite> in <a class="citation-reference" href="#fntguide" id="citation-reference-3" role="doc-biblioref">[fntguide]</a>).</p>
-<p>Unicode fonts used with XeTeX or LuaTeX provide slots for all Unicode
-characters in one font but commonly only a subset of the actual glyphs.</p>
+macro (see section <cite>Providing font family substitutions</cite> in <a class="citation-reference" href="#fntguide" id="citation-reference-1" role="doc-biblioref">[fntguide]</a>).</p>
+<p><strong>Unicode fonts</strong> used with <strong>XeTeX</strong> or <strong>LuaTeX</strong> provide slots for all
+Unicode characters in one font but commonly only a subset of the actual
+glyphs.</p>
<aside class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
-<p>The default <strong>Latin Modern contains only a few Greek letters!</strong>
+<p>The default <strong>Latin Modern</strong> Unicode font
+<strong>contains only a few Greek letters!</strong>
Unsupported characters are silently dropped from the output.
-Warnings about missing glyphs are written to the log
-file only, not to the console.</p>
+Warnings about missing glyphs are written to the log file
+but not to the console.</p>
</aside>
-<p>Select a suitable font with <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a>’s font selecting framework or
-directly with <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec">fontspec</a>. Examples for suitable fonts are <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-unicode">CM-unicode</a>
-or <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/libertine">Linux Libertine</a> as well as any system-wide installed OTF font
-that supports Greek (e.g. <a class="reference external" href="http://dejavu-fonts.org">Deja Vu</a>). See, e.g., the list of free
-<a class="reference external" href="https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/scripts/script-Greek.html">fonts supporting Greek script</a> by openSUSE’s fontinfo.</p>
+<p>Select a suitable font with <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a>’s font selecting framework or <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/fontspec">fontspec</a>.
+Examples for suitable fonts are <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-unicode">CM-unicode</a> or <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/libertine">Linux Libertine</a> as well
+as any system-wide installed OTF font that supports Greek (e.g. <a class="reference external" href="http://dejavu-fonts.org">Deja Vu</a>).
+See, e.g., the list of free <a class="reference external" href="https://fontinfo.opensuse.org/scripts/script-Greek.html">fonts supporting Greek script</a> by
+openSUSE’s fontinfo.</p>
</section>
<section id="lgr-latin-transliteration">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#toc-entry-6" role="doc-backlink">LGR Latin Transliteration</a></h2>
<p>The LGR font encoding allows input of Greek characters via a Latin
transliteration. This enables simple input with a Latin keyboard. Characters
with diacritics may be selected with accent macros (cf. <a class="reference external" href="https://ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a>) or
-via the ligature definitions in the font (see <a class="citation-reference" href="#" id="citation-reference-4" role="doc-biblioref">[usage.pdf]</a>).</p>
+via the ligature definitions in the font (see <a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>The following ASCII characters are converted to Greek symbols:</p>
<table>
<tbody>
@@ -1095,7 +1115,7 @@ via the ligature definitions in the font (see <a class="citation-reference" href
<p>Accent symbols and punctuation:</p>
<table>
<tbody>
-<tr><td><p>tonos</p></td>
+<tr><td><p>tonos/oxia</p></td>
<td><p><span class="docutils literal">'a</span></p></td>
<td><p>ά</p></td>
<td><p>right apostrophe</p></td>
@@ -1133,7 +1153,7 @@ via the ligature definitions in the font (see <a class="citation-reference" href
<tr><td><p>dialytika</p></td>
<td><p><span class="docutils literal">&quot;i</span></p></td>
<td><p>ϊ</p></td>
-<td><p>middle dot</p></td>
+<td><p>ano teleia<a class="footnote-reference superscript" href="#footnote-4" id="footnote-reference-6" role="doc-noteref"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span>5<span class="fn-bracket">]</span></a></p></td>
<td><p><span class="docutils literal">;</span></p></td>
<td><p>·</p></td>
</tr>
@@ -1150,6 +1170,14 @@ via the ligature definitions in the font (see <a class="citation-reference" href
LGR is the active font encoding. This means that for every Latin-written
word or acronym in a Greek text part, an explicit font encoding switch is
required.</p>
+<aside class="footnote-list superscript">
+<aside class="footnote superscript" id="footnote-4" role="doc-footnote">
+<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#footnote-reference-6">5</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
+<p>The “<span class="target" id="keep-semicolon">keep-semicolon</span>” language attribute prevents the mapping of
+a semicolon to a middle dot to allow its use as Greek question mark
+(erotimatiko).</p>
+</aside>
+</aside>
</section>
<section id="greek-numerals">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#toc-entry-7" role="doc-backlink">Greek Numerals</a></h2>
@@ -1163,7 +1191,7 @@ from the city of Miletus in Ionia replacing the <a class="reference external" hr
They are still used in everyday life for ordinal numbers and
more generally by the Orthodox church and certain scholars.</p>
<p>Greek numerals use several now obsolete letters:
-<a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma">digamma</a> ϝ or <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigma_(ligature)">stigma</a> ϛ, <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_(letter)">koppa</a> ϟ or ϙ, and <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi">sampi</a> ϡ <a class="citation-reference" href="#nicholas-05" id="citation-reference-5" role="doc-biblioref">[Nicholas-05]</a>.</p>
+<a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma">digamma</a> ϝ or <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigma_(ligature)">stigma</a> ϛ, <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koppa_(letter)">koppa</a> ϟ or ϙ, and <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampi">sampi</a> ϡ <a class="citation-reference" href="#nicholas-05" id="citation-reference-2" role="doc-biblioref">[Nicholas-05]</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Standing for 6 is the <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digamma">digamma</a> ϝ, the sixth letter of the Ionic
alphabet (just as its Latin equivalent F is the sixth letter of the
@@ -1335,7 +1363,7 @@ to hard-coded <span class="docutils literal">\latinencoding</span> when leaving
<dd><ul class="simple">
<li><p>Do not change the uccode values if the LaTeX version is newer than
2022/06. The new <span class="docutils literal">\MakeUppercase</span> definition ignores them and fails
-with the “dummy” character 0x9f (cf. <a class="citation-reference" href="#ltnews35" id="citation-reference-6" role="doc-biblioref">[ltnews35]</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/987">LaTeX issue 987</a>).</p></li>
+with the “dummy” character 0x9f (cf. <a class="citation-reference" href="#ltnews35" id="citation-reference-3" role="doc-biblioref">[ltnews35]</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/987">LaTeX issue 987</a>).</p></li>
<li><p>New modifiers <span class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">local-LGR-fixes</span></span> and <span class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">no-LGR-fixes</span></span> to address
indexing problmes with Roman numerals (<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/latex3/babel/issues/170">Babel issue 170</a>). Provisional.</p></li>
<li><p>New TextCommand <span class="docutils literal">\EnsureStandardFontEncoding</span>.</p></li>
@@ -1348,23 +1376,30 @@ Don’t require Babel.
Use LICR macros instead of the Latin transliteration.</p></li>
</ul>
</dd>
+<dt>1.13 (2023-03-15)</dt>
+<dd><ul class="simple">
+<li><p>New language attribute “<a class="reference internal" href="#keep-semicolon">keep-semicolon</a>”.</p></li>
+<li><p>Rename <span class="docutils literal">\greek&#64;tilde</span> to <span class="docutils literal">\bbl&#64;greek&#64;tilde</span>, simplify definition.</p></li>
+<li><p>Fix links, update documentation.</p></li>
+</ul>
+</dd>
</dl>
</section>
<section id="references">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#toc-entry-9" role="doc-backlink">References</a></h2>
<div role="list" class="citation-list">
<div class="citation" id="fntguide" role="doc-biblioentry">
-<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-3">fntguide</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
+<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-1">fntguide</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
<p>LaTeX Project Team <cite>LaTeX2e font selection</cite>, December 2021.
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/fntguide.pdf">https://www.latex-project.org/help/documentation/fntguide.pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div class="citation" id="ltnews35" role="doc-biblioentry">
-<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-6">ltnews35</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
+<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-3">ltnews35</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
<p>LaTeX Project Team <cite>LaTeX News 35</cite>, June 2022.
<a class="reference external" href="https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews35.pdf">https://www.latex-project.org/news/latex2e-news/ltnews35.pdf</a></p>
</div>
<div class="citation" id="nicholas-05" role="doc-biblioentry">
-<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-5">Nicholas-05</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
+<span class="label"><span class="fn-bracket">[</span><a role="doc-backlink" href="#citation-reference-2">Nicholas-05</a><span class="fn-bracket">]</span></span>
<p>Nick Nicholas <cite>Numerals: Stigma, Koppa, Sampi</cite>, 2005.
<a class="reference external" href="https://opoudjis.net/unicode/numerals.html">https://opoudjis.net/unicode/numerals.html</a></p>
</div>