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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-greek/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-greek/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6cead21490d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel-greek/README @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +babel-greek +*********** +Babel support for Greek +======================= + +:Copyright: © 1997 Apostolos Syropoulos, Claudio Beccari, Johannes Brahms, + © 2013 Günter Milde +:Licence: This work may be distributed and/or modified under the + conditions of the `LaTeX Project Public License`_, either + version 1.3 of this license or any later version. + +:Abstract: Babel-greek is a contributed package providing support for the + Greek language and script via the Babel_ system. + + +In 1997, Apostolos Syropoulos added support for the Greek language to the +"babel" package. The file ``greek.ldf`` provides options for monotonic +(single-diacritic) and polytonic (multiple-diacritic) modes of writing. + +Currently, it only works with LaTeX and 8-bit TeX engines. Users of the +XeTeX and LuaTeX engines are advised to use the polyglossia_ package +instead. + +News +---- + +:2013-05-17: * New maintainer. + * The encoding definition file ``lgrenc.def`` moved to the + greek-fontenc_ package. + +Requirements +------------ + +The "babel-greek" package requires the babel_ base package, `Greek text +fonts`_ in the LGR encoding, and the encoding definition file ``lgrenc.def`` +from the greek-fontenc_ package. + + +Installation +------------ + +If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation +manager. + +Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the required files: + +* Download and unpack `babel-greek.zip`. + +* Run ``tex`` or ``latex`` on the batch file ``greek.ins``. + +* Move all files ending in ``.def``, ``.fd``, ``.ldf``, or ``.sty`` + into a directory searched by TeX. + +* To produce the documentation run the files ``usage.tex`` and all files + ending in ``.dtx`` through LaTeX. + + +Usage +----- + +Pass the "greek" or "polutonikogreek" options to babel:: + + \usepackage[greek]{babel} + +For details see `<usage.pdf>`_, `<greek.pdf>`_ and the babel_ documentation. +Literal input of Greek characters is possible with the greek-inputenc_ +package. + + +Greek text fonts +---------------- + +The LGR font encoding is the de-facto standard for typesetting Greek with +(8-bit) LaTeX. Fonts in this encoding include the `CB fonts`_ (matching CM), +grtimes_ (Greek Times), Kerkis_ (matching URW Bookman), and the `GFS font +collection`_. Setup of these fonts as Greek variant to matching Latin fonts +is facilitated by the substitutefont_ package. + +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 `<usage.pdf>`_). + +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 `Babel` language ``greek`` or ``polutionikogreek``). +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). + + +.. References + ---------- + +.. _LaTeX Project Public License: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt +.. _babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel +.. _fontspec: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontspec +.. _CB Fonts: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete +.. _grtimes: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/grtimes +.. _greek-fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc +.. _greek-inputenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-inputenc +.. _GFS font collection: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gfs +.. _Kerkis: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/kerkis +.. _lgrx: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lgrx +.. _polyglossia: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia +.. _substitutefont: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/substitutefont |