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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lgreek/lgreekuse.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lgreek/lgreekuse.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7f70dc0e951 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lgreek/lgreekuse.tex @@ -0,0 +1,231 @@ +\documentclass[a4paper]{article} +\usepackage[delims]{lgreek} +\usepackage{doc} +\MakeShortVerb\| +\newenvironment{TeXystuff}% + {\small\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{0.9}\smallskip}% + {\par\smallskip} + +\title{Using Greek Fonts with \LaTeX} +\author{Silvio Levy\\ + Princeton University \\ + Fine Hall, Washington Road\\ + Princeton, NJ, 08544\\ + (\texttt{levy@princeton.edu})\\[5pt] + \emph{modified for \LaTeX2e by}\\[5pt] + Timothy Murphy\\ + School of Mathematics\\ + Trinity College Dublin\\ + (\texttt{tim@maths.tcd.ie})} + +\begin{document} + +\maketitle + +\begin{abstract} +In this document I hope to show that typesetting Greek in \LaTeX\ +using the |lgreek| package (and the |gr| fonts) +can be as easy as typesetting English text, +and leads to equally good results. +This is meant to be a tutorial, not an exhaustive discussion; +some \TeX nical remarks that should be useful after the reader +has acquired some familiarity with the fonts are printed in fine +print. +\end{abstract} + +\section{The Alphabet} + +In order to typeset Greek text, you need to go into ``Greek mode.'' +This is achieved by typing |\begin{greek}| anywhere in your document; +Greek mode will remain in effect until you type a matching |\end{greek}|. +While in Greek mode, the letters `a' to `z' and `A' to `Z' come out +as Greek letters, according to the following code: + +\begin{center} +\setlength{\tabcolsep}{3pt} +\begin{tabular}{cccccccccccccccccccccccc} +$a$&$b$&$g$&$d$&$e$&$z$&$h$&$j$&$i$&$k$&$l$&$m$& +$n$&$x$&$o$&$p$&$r$&$s$&$t$&$u$&$f$&$q$&$y$&$w$\\ +|a|&|b|&|g|&|d|&|e|&|z|&|h|&|j|&|i|&|k|&|l|&|m|& +|n|&|x|&|o|&|p|&|r|&|s|&|t|&|u|&|f|&|q|&|y|&|w| +\end{tabular} +\end{center} + +There is no digamma yet. The same character `s' will print as +`$c$' or `$s$', depending on its position in a word. + +\begin{TeXystuff} +The system does this by accessing a ligature of `s' with any other +letter that follows it. If, for some reason, you want to print +an initial/medial sigma by itself (as in the table above), or +at the end of a word, you should type `c'. +\end{TeXystuff} + +Try to typeset some simple text now. Create a file +containing the following lines: + +\begin{quote} +\begin{verbatim} +\documentclass{article} +\usepackage{lgreek} +\begin{document} +This is English text. +\begin{greek} +This is Greek text. +\end{greek} +\end{document} +\end{verbatim} +\end{quote} + +When you \TeX\ this file, you get the following gibberish: +\begin{quote} +%\hbox{ +This is English text. +\begin{greek} +This is Greek text. +\end{greek} +%} +\end{quote} + +If you give the |delims| option for the package then +the character |$| can be used +in place of both |\begin{greek}| and |\end{greek}|, +as eg +\begin{quote} +\begin{verbatim} +This is English text. +$This is Greek text.$ +\end{verbatim} +\end{quote} + +The control sequences |\(|\dots|\)| are still available +for in-text math. + +\section{Accents and Breathings} + +To get an acute, grave or circumflex accent over a vowel, +type |'|, |`| or |~|, respectively, before the vowel. +To get a rough or smooth breathing, type |<| or |>| before +the vowel (or rho) and any accent that it may have. To get an iota +subscript, type \verb"|" \emph{after} the vowel. A diaeresis is +represented by |"|, and if accompanied by an accent it can come +before or after the accent. + +For example, \hbox{\verb">en >arq\~h| >\~hn <o l'ogos"} +gives \hbox{$>en >arq~h| >~hn <o l'ogos$}. +Neat, ain't it? + +\begin{TeXystuff} +Accents and breathings, too, are typeset by means of ligatures: a +vowel with a breathing, an accent and iota subscript, for example, +is realized as a four-character ligature. The only exception is +when a breathing is followed by a grave accent, in which case the +breathing\({}+{}\)accent combination is typeset as a \TeX\ |\accent| +over the vowel. This means that words containing such combinations +cannot be hyphenated in (standard) \TeX; but this is not a problem +because, with the exception of very rare cases of crasis, all such words +are monosyllables. +\end{TeXystuff} + +\section{Punctuation} + +Here's the table of correspondences for punctuation: + +\begin{center} +\setlength{\tabcolsep}{4pt} +\begin{tabular}{ccccccccc} +$.$&$,$&$;$&$:$&$!$&$?$&$''$&$(($&$))$\\ +|.|&|,|&|;|&|:|&|!|&|?|&|''|&|((|&|))| +\end{tabular} +\end{center} + +The last three entries represent the apostrophe and quotations marks. +The other available non-letters are the ten digits, parentheses, +brackets, hyphen, em- and en-dashes, slash, percent sign, asterisk, +plus and equal signs. All of these are accessible in the usual way. +In a future release there will be tick marks for +numbers (\(\hbox{$a$}'=1\), \({}_\prime\hbox{$a$}=1000\)). + +\section{Hyphenation} + +A hyphenation table for both modern and ancient Greek is currently +being debugged. For now one can use the usual (English) +hyphenation table, which gives the right results about 90\% of the +time (amazing, isn't it?). Be sure to proofread your text carefully, +unless you've turned hyphenation off. + +\section{Interaction with other macros} + +While in Greek mode you can do just about everything that you can +outside: go into math mode, create boxes, alignments, and so on. +The file |greekmacros.tex| sets things up so that in Greek mode +the control sequences |\tt| and |\bf| switch to a +typewriter and a bold Greek font, respectively: thus +|\texttt{s''>agap\~w}| gives \hbox{$\texttt{s''>agap~w}$}. (Try it.) +On the other hand, there are no ``italic'' or slanted Greek fonts, +so |\it| and |\sl| will give you the same fonts as outside +Greek mode. The various constructions under +%\AMSTeX\ and \LaTeX\ for increasing or decreasing point sizes don't +\LaTeX\ for increasing or decreasing point sizes don't +work yet; they will in a future release. + +The characters that form diacritics (|<|, |>|, +|'|, |`|, |\~|, |"| and \verb"|") are treated differently +depending on whether or not you're in Greek mode. More exactly, +under plain \TeX\ these characters (with the exception of +|\~|) have a |\catcode| of 12: they print as themselves, +and they cannot appear in control words. But in Greek mode +|'|, |`|, |\~|, |"| and \verb"|" are ``letters'', that is, +they have a |\catcode| of 11, while |<| and |>| are +active, with a |\catcode| of 13. This may be important even +for beginners because it means that |'|, for example, can be taken +as part of a control word. Thus the sequence +\begin{verbatim} + \begin{greek} + wm'ega\hfil'alfa + \end{greek} +\end{verbatim} +\noindent +will cause an error message about an +undefined control sequence |\hfil'alfa|, instead of printing +\begin{quote} +\begin{greek} +wm'ega\hfil 'alfa +\end{greek} +\end{quote} +as you might expect. (I hope classicists will forgive this use +of the modern Greek one-accent system.) The solution, of course, +is to remember to add a blank after the |\hfil|. + +\begin{TeXystuff} +A more subtle problem arises when you use Greek text in macro +arguments, if the arguments are scanned while you're outside Greek +mode. This is because \TeX\ assigns |\catcode|s to tokens +as it first reads them, so when the argument is plugged into +the body of the macro the characters above have the wrong +|\catcode|. If the legendary Jonathan Horatio Quick were +to write +\begin{quote} +\begin{verbatim} +\def\hellenize#1{\begin{greek}#1\end{greek}} +\hellenize{d'uo >`h tre~is,} +\end{verbatim} +\end{quote} +he would be unpleasantly surprised by the following output: +\begin{quote} +\def\hellenize#1{\begin{greek}#1\end{greek}} +\hellenize{d'uo >`h tre~is,} +\end{quote} +\enlargethispage{24pt} +which can be explained as follows: the |\~|, which should be +a letter, is seen as an active character, and expands to a blank +as in plain \TeX; while the breathing, which should be active, +is not, and in particular it doesn't do the right thing when +next to the grave accent. Solutions to this problem require a +bit of wizardry, and will not be discussed here; see, for example, +Reinhard Wonneberger's article in the October, 1986 issue of +{\it TUGboat}, especially pages 179--180. +\end{TeXystuff} + +\end{document} + |