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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
\documentclass[oneside]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
-\usepackage[czech, english]{babel}
+\usepackage[czech, polutonikogreek, english]{babel}
\usepackage[IL2, T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{DejaVuSans}
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ Vera fonts are in blue color and they are considered experimental.
\caption{The styles of DejaVu Sans Mono}}
\end{figure}
-The fonts have Latin, Cyrillic and Greek letters (and even more). The Greek is
-not supported at this moment. The fonts cover many languages, but the three
+The fonts have Latin, Cyrillic and Greek letters (and even more).
+The fonts cover many languages, but the three
families do not have exactly the same characters. DejaVu Sans has usually more characters than the other fonts. Look at the file \texttt{languages.txt} what
languages are supported.
-This package currently supports encodings T1, OT1, IL2,
-TS1, T2* and X2. The fonts are included in the original
+This package currently supports encodings T1, OT1, IL2, TS1, T2*, X2, QX
+and LGR. The fonts are included in the original
TrueType format and in the converted Type 1 format.
@@ -175,6 +175,21 @@ can see them also in other central European languages, such as Polish. And there
is also the non-ideal position of accents in letters like Ccaron and ccaron.
+\section{The LGR encoding for Greek}
+
+I hope, that all the ligatures work and also the sigma and final sigma is
+used correctly. However, when I look at the automatically generated accented
+capital letters, they do not look very good to me. In my opinion, the accents
+should be (sometimes much) closer to the letter. Look at the following letters
+and you will see what I am talking about: \textgreek{>`A <'O <O >'E >E}.
+
+Therefore I think that I should add some kerning pairs between the accents and
+the capital letters. I have already an idea how I could do part of this work
+automatically. The result would be that the automatically composed letters
+would look the same as the precomposed letters that are in the fonts. However,
+it is hard to say how much time it will take.
+
+
\section{Using the package}
The package was created using \texttt{fontools}, but with some changes. From