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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
- THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 5/0 OF NOVEMBER 2020
+ THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 5.2 OF JANUARY 2021
EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING
-Copyright 2001-2004-2020 Claudio Beccari
+Copyright 2001-2004-2021 Claudio Beccari
The programs contained in this bundle can be distributed and/or modified
under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ These two .pdf files are already contained in the bundle.
File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can be
done with this extension package and displays several examples.
-Version 5.0 of the teubner package is compliant with the Greek language
+Version 5.2 of the teubner package is compliant with the Greek language
support to babel version 3.9g, that makes use of the encoding independent
LICR (LaTeX Internal Character Representation) of the Greek characters &
diacritics; it contains also the macros that allow using the LGR encoded
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ transform Arabic numerals into the classical Milesian and Attic number
representations. From version 5.0 the teubner package has been patched
in order to re-establish the above number transformations; some other
improvements have been added that are transparent to the end user, since
-deal with the package internal workings. But these improvements require
-a recent installation of the TeX system, because they use interfaces to
-the new LaTeX 3 language; the minimum date of the LaTeX kernel should
-not be earlier than January 2019.
+they deal with the package internal workings. But these improvements
+require a recent installation of the TeX system, because they use
+interfaces to the new LaTeX 3 language; the minimum date of the LaTeX
+kernel should not be earlier than January 2019.
Some time ago Antonis Tsolomitis uploaded the package txfontsb which
adds the possibility of using nice TX compatible Greek fonts when using
@@ -65,17 +65,18 @@ teubner-doc.pdf document.
Although Tsolomitis' fonts satisfy very well the everyday typesetting
necessities of the Greek users and blend well also with the TX math
fonts, they do not satisfy the requirements of the teubner package. This
-is why the processing of the teubner.dtx file generates also the file
+is why the processing of the teubner.dtx file generates also the file
teubnertx.sty that is being input at begin document time if the user
specified the TX fonts by calling the txfonts package.
-In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to
-install it. May be the very installation of your (recent) TeX system
-distribution already provided for this task; may be your TeX system is
-configured to load missing packages on the fly. In any case you can
-check and possibly run your Package Manager (with MiKTeX follow the path
-Programs|MiKTeX Settings|Packages; with TeXlive and MacTeX (if their
-installation configuration was not the default complete one) run tlmgr.
+In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to install it.
+May be the very installation of your (recent) TeX system distribution
+already provided for this task; may be your TeX system is configured to
+load missing packages on the fly. In any case you can check and possibly
+run your Package Manager (with MiKTeX follow the path:
+ Programs|MiKTeX Settings|Packages;
+with TeXlive and MacTeX (if their installation configuration was not
+the default complete one) run tlmgr.
If you feel more comfortable to do everything by yourself and/or want to
make a personal installation, run teubner.dtx through pdflatex; the
@@ -85,14 +86,12 @@ depends very much on your particular implementation of the TeX system,
but if your system copes with the TDS (standard TeX Directory Structure)
and has a multiplicity of different TeX directory trees, you probably
have a \localtexmf rooted TDS, or a /texmf one in your Home directory
-containing a tex directory tree which on turn contains a latex directory.
+containing a /tex directory tree which on turn contains a latex directory.
Under the latter one create a new directory named, say, teubner, and
move to this folder the teubner.sty, and teubnertx.sty files.
-I suggest you to create a directory /teubner in the /doc directory of
-the locally rooted structure and move there both teubner-doc.pdf and
-the teubner.pdf file that you get by running pdflatex directly on
-teubner.dtx.
+I suggest to create a directory /teubner in the /doc directory of the
+locally rooted structure and move there both teubner-doc.pdf and the teubner.pdf file that you get by running pdflatex directly on teubner.dtx.
For what concerns fonts, they should already be installed with a recent
TeX system distribution; this means that there are already all the
@@ -167,7 +166,7 @@ you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons.
Happy philological LaTeXing!
-Claudio Beccari November 2020
+Claudio Beccari January 2021
Professor Emeritus
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com