greek-inputenc ############## Greek input encoding definition files ************************************* :Author: Apostolos Syropoulos, Dimitrios Filippou, Günter Milde :Date: 2015-08-07 :Copyright: © 1999 Dimitrios Filippou, © 2000 Apostolos Syropoulos, © 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: This package provides input encoding definition files for Greek for use with inputenc_. News ==== .. class:: borderless ===== ============ ============================================================= 1.3 2013-05-17 New maintainer. .. Unicode support with the standard "utf8" option. 1.4 2013-07-16 bugfix for GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO WITH PSILI/DASIA, .. drop "greek" from macro names for ancient characters, .. ``\ypogegrammeni`` and ``\prosgegrammeni`` instead of ``|`` 1.4.1 2013-07-18 bugfix: wrong breathings psilioxia -> dasiaoxia 1.5 2014-09-14 Use named accent macros for Greek accents, .. Documentation update (warn of ``;``-conversion!) 1.5.1 2015-06-04 Fix definition of spacing diacritical characters in utf8.dfu. 1.6 2015-08-05 Fix output of accented characters with "textalpha" if the current font encoding is not LGR (wrap in \ensuregreek), .. Map GREEK ... SYMBOL characters. ===== ============ ============================================================= Files ===== ``_ Greek input encoding file for UTF-8 comprising Greek letters and other symbols present in the LGR encoding. This file requires ``lgrenc.def`` version 0.8.2 or newer from the greek-fontenc_ package. The literate source was converted with PyLit_ to reStructuredText_ and with Docutils_ to ``_. ``_ Greek input encoding file for `ISO 8859-7`_ by Apostolos Syropoulos. [#transliteration]_ ``_ Greek input encoding file for Macintosh (ELOT 823) by Dimitrios Filippou. [#transliteration]_ Test examples and output: :utf-8: ``_, ``_ (comprehensive example) :iso 8859-7: ``_, ``_ (basic test) .. [#transliteration] Currently, these files translate to a Latin transcription particular to the LGR font encoding. Drawbacks include: Latin characters in PDF strings (hyperref_ bookmarks and TOC sidebar, cf. greekhyperref.pdf__), no kerning between accented characters. __ http://mirrors.ctan.org/language/greek/greek-fontenc/greekhyperref.pdf Installation ============ If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the files ending in ``.def``: * Download and unpack `greek-inputenc.zip` or just download the required file(s). * Copy, move, or link the files to a suitable place in the `TeX Directory Structure` (TDS_) and run ``texhash``, or place them in the current working directory (e.g. for testing). Usage ===== Pass the encoding name as option to inputenc_. The "utf8" option only defines characters that are accessible in declared font encodings. In order to load the Greek definitions in ``lgrenc.dfu``, specify the LGR font encoding with fontenc_, the "greek" option for babel_, or both, e.g. :: \usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} or :: \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} See `greek-utf8.tex`_ for an example. Warning ------- LGR is no "standard font encoding". Latin characters and some other ASCII symbols are mapped to Greek equivalents if LGR is the active font encoding. (See usage.pdf_ for a description of this Latin-Greek transliteration.) This means you need an explicit font-encoding switch for Latin words and abbreviations in Greek text, e.g., not ``\foreignlanguage{greek}{((ηία αντίσταση 750-kΩ))}`` but ``\foreignlanguage{greek}{((ηία αντίσταση 750-\textlatin{k}Ω))}``. Special care is also required with the **question mark characters**: * The Unicode standard says character ``003B SEMICOLON`` (and not 037E) is the preferred character for `Greek question mark`. * The LGR font encoding maps the semicolon to a middle dot (ano teleia), while the Latin question mark is mapped to the erotimatiko. As a result, only the deprecated character ``037E GREEK QUESTION MARK`` works with both, Xe/LuaTeX and 8-bit TeX. .. References ========== .. _ISO 8859-7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-7 .. _LaTeX Project Public License: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt .. _PyLit: http://pylit.berlios.de .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html .. _Docutils: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html .. _TDS: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=tds .. _babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel .. _fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/fontenc .. _greek-fontenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc .. _hyperref: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref .. _ibycus-babel: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ibycus-babel .. _inputenc: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/inputenc .. _lgrx: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lgrx .. _usage.pdf: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/greek/usage.pdf