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The file <tt class="literal">greek.ldf</tt> provides options for monotonic +(single-diacritic) and polytonic (multiple-diacritic) modes of writing.</p> +<p>Currently, it only works with LaTeX and 8-bit TeX engines. Users of the +XeTeX and LuaTeX engines are advised to use the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia">polyglossia</a> package +instead.</p> +<div class="section" id="news"> +<h1>News</h1> +<dl class="field-list simple"> +<dt>2013-05-17</dt> +<dd><ul class="simple"> +<li><p>New maintainer.</p></li> +<li><p>The encoding definition file <tt class="literal">lgrenc.def</tt> moved to the +<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a> package.</p></li> +</ul> +</dd> +</dl> +</div> +<div class="section" id="requirements"> +<h1>Requirements</h1> +<p>The “babel-greek” package requires the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a> base package, <a class="reference internal" href="#greek-text-fonts">Greek text +fonts</a> in the LGR encoding, and the encoding definition file <tt class="literal">lgrenc.def</tt> +from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a> package.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="installation"> +<h1>Installation</h1> +<p>If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation +manager.</p> +<p>Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the required files:</p> +<ul class="simple"> +<li><p>Download and unpack <cite>babel-greek.zip</cite>.</p></li> +<li><p>Run <tt class="literal">tex</tt> or <tt class="literal">latex</tt> on the batch file <tt class="literal">greek.ins</tt>.</p></li> +<li><p>Move all files ending in <tt class="literal">.def</tt>, <tt class="literal">.fd</tt>, <tt class="literal">.ldf</tt>, or <tt class="literal">.sty</tt> +into a directory searched by TeX.</p></li> +<li><p>To produce the documentation run the files <tt class="literal">usage.tex</tt> and all files +ending in <tt class="literal">.dtx</tt> through LaTeX.</p></li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="section" id="usage"> +<h1>Usage</h1> +<p>Pass the “greek” or “polutonikogreek” options to babel:</p> +<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage[greek]{babel} +</pre> +<p>For details see <a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>, <a class="reference external" href="greek.pdf">greek.pdf</a> and the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a> documentation. +Literal input of Greek characters is possible with the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-inputenc">greek-inputenc</a> +package.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="greek-text-fonts"> +<h1>Greek text fonts</h1> +<p>The LGR font encoding is the de-facto standard for typesetting Greek with +(8-bit) LaTeX. Fonts in this encoding include the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete">CB fonts</a> (matching CM), +<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/grtimes">grtimes</a> (Greek Times), <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/kerkis">Kerkis</a> (matching URW Bookman), and the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gfs">GFS font +collection</a>. Setup of these fonts as Greek variant to matching Latin fonts +is facilitated by the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/substitutefont">substitutefont</a> package.</p> +<p>The LGR font encoding generates Greek characters via an ASCII +transliteration. This enables simple input with a Latin keyboard. +Characters with diacritics are selected by ligature definitions in the +font (see <a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>).</p> +<p>A major drawback of this transliteration is, that you cannot access Latin +letters if LGR is the active font encoding (e.g. in documents or parts of +documents given the <cite>Babel</cite> language <tt class="literal">greek</tt> or <tt class="literal">polutionikogreek</tt>). +This means that for every Latin-written word or acronym an explicite +language-switch is required. This problem can only be solved via a +font-encoding comprising Latin and Greek like the hypothetic T7 or Unicode +(with XeTeX or LuaTeX).</p> +<!-- References +- - - - - - - - - - --> +</div> +</div> +</body> +</html> |