summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt')
-rw-r--r--macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt60
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt b/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt
index 64db196c6f..1c088910a2 100644
--- a/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt
+++ b/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
- THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 5.4 OF FEBRUARY 2021
+ THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 5.7 OF AUGUST 2022
EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING
-Copyright 2001-2004-2021 Claudio Beccari
+Copyright 2001-2022 Claudio Beccari
The programs contained in this bundle can be distributed and/or modified
under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c
@@ -13,40 +13,42 @@ dated 2008-05-04 or later as it appears in
This bundle contains the following files
-README short information abut installing this bundle
+README short description of this bundle
teubner.txt this file
-teubner.dtx documented TeX file
-teubner-doc.tex documentation file
+teubner.dtx technical documented TeX source file
+teubner-doc.tex user documentation TeX source file
teubner.pdf technical documentation
-teubner-doc.pdf usage documentation
+teubner-doc.pdf user documentation
-By running pdflatex on teubner.dtx in addition to the documentation
-file teubner.pdf, the byproduct files teubner.sty, teubnertx.sty, are
-generated; teubner-doc.pdf must be generated by running pdflatex on the
-source file teubner-doc.tex file.
+By running pdflatex on teubner.dtx in addition to the technical
+documentation file teubner.pdf, the byproduct files teubner.sty,
+ teubnertx.sty, are generated; teubner-doc.pdf must be generated
+ by running pdflatex on the source file teubner-doc.tex source file.
These two .pdf files are already contained in the bundle.
File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can be
done with this extension package and displays several examples.
-Version 5.2 of the teubner package is compliant with the Greek language
-support to babel version 3.9g, that makes use of the encoding independent
-LICR (LaTeX Internal Character Representation) of the Greek characters &
-diacritics; it contains also the macros that allow using the LGR encoded
-CBfonts together with other PostScript scalable fonts; the compatibility
-with the Times and the Palatino eXtended fonts, through the packages
-txfonts and pxfonts, are already built in; the compatibility with the
-Latin Modern fonts was already available with version 2.x of this package.
-With the upgrade of the Greek support to babel through file greek.ldf
-version 1.10, teubner package versions previous to 5.0 became unable to
-transform Arabic numerals into the classical Milesian and Attic number
-representations. From version 5.0 the teubner package has been patched
-in order to re-establish the above number transformations; some other
+Versiosn 5.2 and later of the teubner package is compliant with the Greek
+language support to babel version 3.9g, that makes use of the encoding
+independent LICR (LaTeX Internal Character Representation) of the Greek
+characters & diacritics; it contains also the macros that allow using
+the LGR encoded CBfonts together with other PostScript scalable fonts;
+the compatibility with the Times and the Palatino eXtended fonts,
+through the packages txfonts and pxfonts, are already built in; the
+compatibility with the Latin Modern fonts was already available with
+version 2.x of this package.
+
+With the upgrade of the Greek support to babel through file greek.ldf
+version 1.10, teubner package versions previous to 5.0 became unable to
+transform Arabic numerals into the classical Milesian and Attic number
+representations. From version 5.0 the teubner package has been patched
+in order to re-establish the above number transformations; some other
improvements have been added that are transparent to the end user, since
-they deal with the package internal workings. But these improvements
-require a recent installation of the TeX system, because they use
+they deal with the package internal workings. But these improvements
+require a recent installation of the TeX system, because they use
interfaces to the new LaTeX 3 language; the minimum date of the LaTeX
-kernel should not be earlier than January 2019.
+kernel should not be earlier than January 2020.
Some time ago Antonis Tsolomitis uploaded the package txfontsb which
adds the possibility of using nice TX compatible Greek fonts when using
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ Although Tsolomitis' fonts satisfy very well the everyday typesetting
necessities of the Greek users and blend well also with the TX math
fonts, they do not satisfy the requirements of the teubner package. This
is why the processing of the teubner.dtx file generates also the file
-teubnertx.sty that is being input at begin document time if the user
+teubnertx.sty that is being input at begin document time when the user
specified the TX fonts by calling the txfonts package.
In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to install it.
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ already provided for this task; may be your TeX system is configured to
load missing packages on the fly. In any case you can check and possibly
run your Package Manager (with MiKTeX follow the path:
Programs|MiKTeX Settings|Packages;
-with TeXlive and MacTeX (if their installation configuration was not
+with TeXlive and MacTeX (if their installation configuration was not
the default complete one) run tlmgr.
If you feel more comfortable to do everything by yourself and/or want to
@@ -167,7 +169,7 @@ you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons.
Happy philological LaTeXing!
-Claudio Beccari February 2021
+Claudio Beccari
Professor Emeritus
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com