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@@ -31,11 +31,9 @@ version&nbsp;1.3 of this license or any later version.</p>
</dl>
<div class="abstract topic">
<p class="topic-title first">Abstract</p>
-<p>The <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc">fontenc</a> standard package supports TeX font encodings via
-<cite>encoding definition files</cite>. The mechanism is explained in
-[<a class="reference internal" href="#fntguide">fntguide</a>], section&nbsp;5. This package provides encoding definition
-files for <a class="reference internal" href="#greek-text-font-encodings">Greek text font encodings</a> for use with <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc">fontenc</a> and
-8-bit TeX engines. Currently, only <a class="reference internal" href="#lgr">LGR</a> is supported.</p>
+<p>This package provides Greek LICR macro definitions and encoding
+definition files for <a class="reference internal" href="#greek-text-font-encodings">Greek text font encodings</a> for use with
+<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc">fontenc</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
@@ -55,13 +53,13 @@ punctuation may change in future versions.</p>
<tbody>
<tr><td><p>2013-07-03</p></td>
<td><p>0.9</p></td>
-<td><p>greek-fontenc.def “outsourced” from lgrxenc.def</p></td>
+<td><p><a class="reference external" href="greek-fontenc.def">greek-fontenc.def</a> “outsourced” from lgrxenc.def</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><!-- -->
</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><p>experimental files xunicode-greek.sty and
-greek-euenc.def: LICRs for XeTeX/LuaTeX.</p></td>
+<a class="reference external" href="greek-euenc.def">greek-euenc.def</a>: LICRs for XeTeX/LuaTeX.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2013-07-18</p></td>
<td><p>0.9.1</p></td>
@@ -89,11 +87,21 @@ greek-euenc.def: LICRs for XeTeX/LuaTeX.</p></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td><p>remove xunicode-greek.sty.</p></td>
</tr>
+<tr><td><p>2013-09-13</p></td>
+<td><p>0.10</p></td>
+<td><p><a class="reference external" href="textalpha.sty">textalpha.sty</a> and <a class="reference external" href="alphabeta.sty">alphabeta.sty</a> moved here from lgrx and
+updated to work with XeTeX/LuaTeX.</p></td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td><!-- -->
+</td>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td><p>remove greek-fontenc.sty (obsoleted by textalpha.sty).</p></td>
+</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="files">
-<h1>Files</h1>
+<div class="section" id="latex-files">
+<h1>LaTeX files</h1>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><a class="reference external" href="greek-fontenc.def">greek-fontenc.def</a></dt>
<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="greek-fontenc.def.html">Common Greek font encoding definitions</a>.</p>
@@ -104,6 +112,26 @@ greek-euenc.def: LICRs for XeTeX/LuaTeX.</p></td>
comes with <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a>’s Greek support and <tt class="literal">lgrxenc.def</tt> from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lgrx">lgrx</a>
bundle.</p>
</dd>
+<dt><a class="reference external" href="textalpha.sty">textalpha.sty</a></dt>
+<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="textalpha.sty.html">Greek symbols in text</a>
+independent of font encoding and TeX engine.</p>
+</dd>
+<dt><a class="reference external" href="alphabeta.sty">alphabeta.sty</a></dt>
+<dd><p>Generic macros for <a class="reference external" href="alphabeta.sty.html">Greek symbols in text and math</a>.</p>
+</dd>
+</dl>
+<p>Literate source files were converted with <a class="reference external" href="http://pylit.berlios.de">PyLit</a> to reStructuredText and
+with <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">Docutils</a> to the HTML documentation.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="documentation-and-test-documents">
+<h1>Documentation and test documents</h1>
+<dl class="docutils">
+<dt><a class="reference external" href="textalpha-test.tex">textalpha-test.tex</a>, <a class="reference external" href="textalpha-test.pdf">textalpha-test.pdf</a></dt>
+<dd><p><cite>The textalpha package</cite>.</p>
+</dd>
+<dt><a class="reference external" href="alphabeta-test.tex">alphabeta-test.tex</a> <a class="reference external" href="alphabeta-test.pdf">alphabeta-test.pdf</a></dt>
+<dd><p><cite>The alphabeta package</cite>.</p>
+</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="lgrenc-test.tex">lgrenc-test.tex</a>, <a class="reference external" href="lgrenc-test.pdf">lgrenc-test.pdf</a></dt>
<dd><p>Test and usage example.</p>
</dd>
@@ -113,14 +141,15 @@ bundle.</p>
(monotonic) Greek.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<p>Experimental files that are still in development and will eventually be
-moved to/merged with other packages or removed in future versions:</p>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="experimental-files">
+<h1>Experimental files</h1>
+<p>These files are still in development and will eventually be moved to/merged
+with other packages or removed in future versions:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
-<dt><a class="reference external" href="greek-fontenc.sty">greek-fontenc.sty</a></dt>
-<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="greek-fontenc.sty.html">Greek text font encoding setup</a></p>
-</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="greek-euenc.def">greek-euenc.def</a></dt>
-<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="greek-euenc.def.html">Greek LICR definitions for XeTeX and LuaTeX</a></p>
+<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="greek-euenc.def.html">Greek LICR definitions for XeTeX and LuaTeX</a>.
+Requires <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/euenc">euenc</a>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="test-euenc.tex">test-euenc.tex</a></dt>
<dd><p>Example for use of the experimental Greek LICR definitions with XeTeX or
@@ -130,8 +159,6 @@ LuaTeX.</p>
<dd><p><a class="reference external" href="lgr2licr.lua.html">LGR Transcription to Greek LICR transformation</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<p>Literate source files were converted with <a class="reference external" href="http://pylit.berlios.de">PyLit</a> to reStructuredText and
-with <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">Docutils</a> to the HTML documentation.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installation">
<h1>Installation</h1>
@@ -147,23 +174,23 @@ directory (e.g. for testing).</p></li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="usage">
<h1>Usage</h1>
-<p>For 8-bit TeX, pass the encoding name as option to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc">fontenc</a>. For example,
-specify T1 (Latin) as default font encoding and LGR for Greek with</p>
-<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
+<p>To ensure Greek support independent of the TeX engine write</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage{textalpha}
</pre>
-<p>See <a class="citation-reference" href="#fntguide" id="id1">[fntguide]</a> for details and <a class="reference external" href="lgrenc-test.tex">lgrenc-test.tex</a> for an example.</p>
-<p>For XeTeX/LuaTeX, you can specify the EU1/EU2 encoding and
-load the experimental <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">greek-euenc.def</span></tt>:</p>
-<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage[EU1]{fontenc} % XeTeX
-% \usepackage[EU2]{fontenc} % LuaTeX
-\makeatletter
-\input{greek-euenc.def}
-\makeatother
+<p>For details see <a class="reference external" href="textalpha-test.tex">textalpha-test.tex</a> and <a class="reference external" href="textalpha-test.pdf">textalpha-test.pdf</a> (8-bit
+TeX) as well as <a class="reference external" href="test-euenc.tex">test-euenc.tex</a> and <a class="reference external" href="test-euenc.pdf">test-euenc.pdf</a> (XeTeX/LuaTeX).</p>
+<p>To use the established macro names (<tt class="literal">\alpha</tt> … <tt class="literal">\Omega</tt>) in text and
+math mode, write</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage{alphabeta}
</pre>
-<p>XeTeX/LuaTeX usage details are likely to change in the future!!!</p>
-<p>To ensure Greek support independent of the TeX engine, you may write</p>
-<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage{fontenc-greek}
+<p>For details see <a class="reference external" href="alphabeta-test.tex">alphabeta-test.tex</a> and <a class="reference external" href="alphabeta-test.pdf">alphabeta-test.pdf</a>.</p>
+<p>For 8-bit TeX, you may also pass LGR as option to <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc">fontenc</a>. For example,
+specify T1 (Latin) as default font encoding and LGR for Greek with</p>
+<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
</pre>
+<p>In this case, using Greek text macros without explicite font switch will
+lead to errors.</p>
+<p>See <a class="citation-reference" href="#fntguide" id="id4">[fntguide]</a> for details and <a class="reference external" href="lgrenc-test.tex">lgrenc-test.tex</a> for an example.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="greek-text-font-encodings">
<h1>Greek text font encodings</h1>
@@ -172,7 +199,7 @@ Greek letters and symbols are also defined in the Unicode-based font
encodings EU1 (XeTeX), EU2 (LuaTeX) and PU (<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref">hyperref</a>).</p>
<div class="section" id="t7">
<h2>T7</h2>
-<p>The <a class="citation-reference" href="#encguide" id="id3">[encguide]</a> reserves the name T7 for a Greek <cite>standard font encoding</cite>.
+<p>The <a class="citation-reference" href="#encguide" id="id6">[encguide]</a> reserves the name T7 for a Greek <cite>standard font encoding</cite>.
However, up to now, there is no agreement on an implementation because the
restrictions for general text encodings are too severe for typesetting
polytonic Greek.</p>
@@ -187,7 +214,7 @@ is facilitated by the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pk
<p>The LGR font encoding allows to access Greek characters via an ASCII
transliteration. This enables simple input with a Latin keyboard.
Characters with diacritics can be selected by ligature definitions in the
-font (see <a class="citation-reference" href="#greek-usage" id="id4">[greek-usage]</a>, <a class="citation-reference" href="#teubner-doc" id="id5">[teubner-doc]</a>, <a class="citation-reference" href="#cbfonts" id="id6">[cbfonts]</a>).</p>
+font (see <a class="citation-reference" href="#greek-usage" id="id7">[greek-usage]</a>, <a class="citation-reference" href="#teubner-doc" id="id8">[teubner-doc]</a>, <a class="citation-reference" href="#cbfonts" id="id9">[cbfonts]</a>).</p>
<p>A major drawback of the 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>).
@@ -199,7 +226,7 @@ Unicode (with XeTeX or LuaTeX).</p>
<div class="section" id="lgi">
<h2>LGI</h2>
<p>The ‘Ibycus’ fonts from the package <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ibygrk">ibygrk</a> implement an alternative
-transliteration scheme (also explained in <a class="citation-reference" href="#babel-patch" id="id7">[babel-patch]</a>).
+transliteration scheme (also explained in <a class="citation-reference" href="#babel-patch" id="id10">[babel-patch]</a>).
It is currently not supported by <cite>greek-fontenc</cite>.</p>
<p>The font encoding file <tt class="literal">lgienc.def</tt> from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ibycus-babel">ibycus-babel</a> provides a basic
setup (without any LICR macros or composite definitions).</p>
@@ -351,40 +378,40 @@ from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/unicode">uc
<p>Aliases from <tt class="literal">puenc.def</tt> ensure that the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref">hyperref</a> package can convert
Greek text in “LICR encoding” to a PDF-string (utf-8 encoded input is used
as-is).</p>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[fntguide]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id4">[fntguide]</a></dt>
<dd id="fntguide">
<p class="first last">LaTeX3 Project Team, <cite>LaTeX2ε font selection</cite>, 2005.
<a class="reference external" href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc/fntguide.pdf">http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc/fntguide.pdf</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3">[encguide]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id6">[encguide]</a></dt>
<dd id="encguide">
<p class="first last">Frank Mittelbach, Robin Fairbairns, Werner Lemberg,
LaTeX3 Project Team, <cite>LaTeX font encodings</cite>, 2006.
<a class="reference external" href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc/encguide.pdf">http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/doc/encguide.pdf</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id4">[greek-usage]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id7">[greek-usage]</a></dt>
<dd id="greek-usage">
<p class="first last">Apostolos Syropoulos, <cite>Writing Greek with the greek option
of the babel package</cite>, 1997.
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel/greek-usage.pdf">http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/generic/babel/greek-usage.pdf</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id6">[cbfonts]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id9">[cbfonts]</a></dt>
<dd id="cbfonts">
<p class="first last">Claudio Beccari, <cite>The CB Greek fonts</cite>, Εὔτυπον, τεῦχος № 21, 2008.
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.eutypon.gr/eutypon/pdf/e2008-21/e21-a01.pdf">http://www.eutypon.gr/eutypon/pdf/e2008-21/e21-a01.pdf</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id5">[teubner-doc]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id8">[teubner-doc]</a></dt>
<dd id="teubner-doc">
<p class="first last">Claudio Beccari, <tt class="literal">teubner.sty</tt>
<cite>An extension to the greek option of the babel package</cite>, 2011.
<a class="reference external" href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner-doc.pdf">http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner-doc.pdf</a></p>
</dd>
</dl>
-<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id7">[babel-patch]</a></dt>
+<dl class="citation"><dt class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id10">[babel-patch]</a></dt>
<dd id="babel-patch">
<p class="first last">Werner Lemberg, <cite>Unicode support for the Greek LGR
encoding</cite> Εὔτυπον, τεῦχος № 20, 2008.