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@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
- THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 4.x OF MARCH 2016
+ THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 5/0 OF NOVEMBER 2020
EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING
-Copyright 2001-2004-2016 Claudio Beccari
+Copyright 2001-2004-2020 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
dated 2008-05-04 or later as it appears in
- CTAN/macros/latex/base/lppl.tex.
+ CTAN/macros/latex/base/lppl.tex.
This bundle contains the following files
@@ -26,35 +26,41 @@ generated; teubner-doc.pdf must be generated by running pdflatex on the
source file teubner-doc.tex file.
These two .pdf files are already contained in the bundle.
-The previous versions 3.x of this packages used a LGRaccents-glyphs.def
-file, that now is not necessary, and is not contained in this bundle any
-more.
-
File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can be
done with this extension package and displays several examples.
-Version 4.x of the teubner package contains many new enhancements, among
-which it's worth noting the compliance with the new Greek language
-support to babel, 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.
-
-While this package was upgraded and uploaded to CTAN, Antonis Tsolomitis
-uploaded the package txfontsb which adds the possibility of using nice
-TX compatible Greek fonts when using the TX latin fonts so as to let the
-users typeset their documents in mixed script.
-The upright shape resembles the traditional Didot one, and the italic
-shape resembles the Lipsian one; they come in both the medium and the
-bold series and match the TX latin fonts pretty well. They probably match
-also the newer newtxtext fonts by Michael Sharpe, but since the latter
-have different font family names, the automatically produced .fd files
-for adapting the LGR encoded fonts to the TX fonts are not suited any
-more; in order to have matching .fd files it is necessary to proceed as
-with any other font collection different from the TX one
+Version 5.0 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
+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.
+
+Some time ago Antonis Tsolomitis uploaded the package txfontsb which
+adds the possibility of using nice TX compatible Greek fonts when using
+the TX latin fonts so as to let the users typeset their documents in
+mixed script. The upright shape resembles the traditional Didot one,
+and the italic shape resembles the Lipsian one; they come in both the
+medium and the bold series and match the TX latin fonts pretty well.
+They probably match also the newer newtxtext fonts by Michael Sharpe,
+but since the latter have different font family names, the automatically
+produced .fd files for adapting the LGR encoded fonts to the TX fonts
+are not suited for the newtxtext fonts; in order to have matching .fd
+files it is necessary to proceed in the same way as with any other font
+collection different from the TX one; the procedure is described in the
+teubner-doc.pdf document.
Although Tsolomitis' fonts satisfy very well the everyday typesetting
necessities of the Greek users and blend well also with the TX math
@@ -78,21 +84,22 @@ file; they must be moved where TeX-the-program can find them. This
depends very much on your particular implementation of the TeX system,
but if your system copes with the TDS (standard TeX Directory Structure)
and has a multiplicity of different TeX directory trees, you probably
-have a \localtexmf rooted TDS, or a /texmmf one in your Home directory
+have a \localtexmf rooted TDS, or a /texmf one in your Home directory
containing a tex directory tree which on turn contains a latex directory.
Under the latter one create a new directory named, say, teubner, and
-move there teubner.sty, and teubnertx.sty.
+move to this folder the teubner.sty, and teubnertx.sty files.
-I suggest you to create a directory teubner in the doc directory of the
-locally rooted structure and move there both teubner-doc.pdf and the
-teubner.pdf file that you get by running pdflatex directly on teubner.dtx.
+I suggest you to create a directory /teubner in the /doc directory of
+the locally rooted structure and move there both teubner-doc.pdf and
+the teubner.pdf file that you get by running pdflatex directly on
+teubner.dtx.
For what concerns fonts, they should already be installed with a recent
TeX system distribution; this means that there are already all the
files TeX-the-program needs in order to do its work; there is one
point, though, that requires full attention; the default basic TeX
system installation loads only the PostScript fonts in size 10pt; all
-other sizes are are obtained by reducing or enlarging that single size.
+other sizes are obtained by reducing or enlarging that single size.
A complete TeX system installation does not exhibit this limitation.
There are also non standard scalable Type 1 fonts, such for example, the
Fourier ones, that come only in one size, the 10pt one; for these
@@ -113,7 +120,7 @@ got them pre-installed with your TeX system distribution, may be they
are not the latest version. The full collection has been redone in
the year 2007, and partially upgraded in 2010; the reduced collection is
a subset of the full one. Earlier distributions, dated at least 2002,
-might be compatible; if you notice something strange with the CBfonts,
+might be compatible, but if you notice something strange with the CBfonts,
verify if your fonts are up to date.
Another question you might ask yourself: is my TeX system complete and
@@ -131,7 +138,7 @@ CBfonts.
After all these steps are done, you are ready to use your teubner
extensions; it will not be easy at the beginning, because there are
hundreds of new commands. Be sure to have already thoroughly read the
-documentation file teubner-doc.pdf and that you have the hard copy close
+documentation file teubner-doc.pdf and that you have a hard copy close
to you.
Remember, though, that most commands are Latin names or abbreviations
@@ -160,11 +167,11 @@ you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons.
Happy philological LaTeXing!
-Claudio Beccari Turin, March 2016
+Claudio Beccari November 2020
Professor Emeritus
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
-PS: I underline my former professorship in electronics, in order to
-stress the point that I am not a philologist, therefore beware: this
-work might simply be "trash" to the eyes of a real philologist!
+PS: My former professorship is in electronics, just to stress the
+point that I am not a philologist, therefore beware: this work might
+simply be "trash" to the eyes of a real philologist!