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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-09-14 21:59:22 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2014-09-14 21:59:22 +0000 |
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greek-inputenc (14sep14)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greek-inputenc/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greek-inputenc/README index 094b5a55423..46b7dbc3270 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greek-inputenc/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greek-inputenc/README @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Greek input encoding definition files ************************************* :Author: Apostolos Syropoulos, Dimitrios Filippou, Günter Milde -:Date: 2013-07-18 -:Copyright: © 1999 Dimitrios Filippou - © 2000 Apostolos Syropoulos +:Date: 2014-09-14 +: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 @@ -18,8 +18,19 @@ Greek input encoding definition files News ==== -:May 2013: * new maintainer. - * Unicode support with the standard "utf8" option. +.. 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!) +===== ============ ============================================================ + Files ===== @@ -43,7 +54,7 @@ Files [#transliteration]_ Test examples and output: - :utf-8: `<test-utf8.tex>`_, `<test-utf8.pdf>`_ (comprehensive example) + :utf-8: `<greek-utf8.tex>`_, `<greek-utf8.pdf>`_ (comprehensive example) :iso 8859-7: `<test-iso-8859-7.tex>`_, `<test-iso-8859-7.pdf>`_ (basic test) @@ -77,8 +88,8 @@ 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_ or the "greek" option for -babel_, e.g. :: +specify the LGR font encoding with fontenc_, the "greek" option for +babel_, or both, e.g. :: \usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} @@ -88,8 +99,26 @@ or :: \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} -See `test-utf8.tex`_ for an example. +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**: While +the Unicode standard says character ``003B SEMICOLON`` (and not 037E) is the +preferred character for `Greek question mark', the LGR font encoding maps it +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. .. References @@ -110,3 +139,4 @@ See `test-utf8.tex`_ for an example. .. _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/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/greek/usage.pdf |