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<h1 class="title">babel-greek</h1>
<h2 class="subtitle" id="babel-support-for-greek">Babel support for Greek</h2>

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<dt class="copyright">Copyright</dt>
<dd class="copyright">© 1997 Apostolos Syropoulos, Claudio Beccari, Johannes Brahms,
© 2013 Günter Milde</dd>
<dt>Licence</dt>
<dd><p>This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
conditions of the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt">LaTeX Project Public License</a>, either
version&nbsp;1.3 of this license or any later version.</p>
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<p class="topic-title first">Abstract</p>
<p>Babel-greek is a contributed package providing support for the
Greek language and script via the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">Babel</a> system.</p>
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<p>In 1997, Apostolos Syropoulos added support for the Greek language to the
“babel” package.  The file <tt class="literal">greek.ldf</tt> provides options for monotonic
(single-diacritic) and polytonic (multiple-diacritic) modes of writing.</p>
<p>Currently, it only works with LaTeX and 8-bit TeX engines. Users of the
XeTeX and LuaTeX engines are advised to use the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/polyglossia">polyglossia</a> package
instead.</p>
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<h1>News</h1>
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<dt>2013-05-17</dt>
<dd><ul class="simple">
<li><p>New maintainer.</p></li>
<li><p>The encoding definition file <tt class="literal">lgrenc.def</tt> moved to the
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a> package.</p></li>
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<div class="section" id="requirements">
<h1>Requirements</h1>
<p>The “babel-greek” package requires the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a> base package, <a class="reference internal" href="#greek-text-fonts">Greek text
fonts</a> in the LGR encoding, and the encoding definition file <tt class="literal">lgrenc.def</tt>
from the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-fontenc">greek-fontenc</a> package.</p>
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<div class="section" id="installation">
<h1>Installation</h1>
<p>If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation
manager.</p>
<p>Otherwise, make sure LaTeX can find the required files:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Download and unpack <cite>babel-greek.zip</cite>.</p></li>
<li><p>Run <tt class="literal">tex</tt> or <tt class="literal">latex</tt> on the batch file <tt class="literal">greek.ins</tt>.</p></li>
<li><p>Move all files ending in <tt class="literal">.def</tt>, <tt class="literal">.fd</tt>, <tt class="literal">.ldf</tt>, or <tt class="literal">.sty</tt>
into a directory searched by TeX.</p></li>
<li><p>To produce the documentation run the files <tt class="literal">usage.tex</tt> and all files
ending in <tt class="literal">.dtx</tt> through LaTeX.</p></li>
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<div class="section" id="usage">
<h1>Usage</h1>
<p>Pass the “greek” or “polutonikogreek” options to babel:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">\usepackage[greek]{babel}
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<p>For details see <a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>, <a class="reference external" href="greek.pdf">greek.pdf</a> and the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel">babel</a> documentation.
Literal input of Greek characters is possible with the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/greek-inputenc">greek-inputenc</a>
package.</p>
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<div class="section" id="greek-text-fonts">
<h1>Greek text fonts</h1>
<p>The LGR font encoding is the de-facto standard for typesetting Greek with
(8-bit) LaTeX. Fonts in this encoding include the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete">CB fonts</a> (matching CM),
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/grtimes">grtimes</a> (Greek Times), <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/kerkis">Kerkis</a> (matching URW Bookman), and the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gfs">GFS font
collection</a>. Setup of these fonts as Greek variant to matching Latin fonts
is facilitated by the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.ctan.org/pkg/substitutefont">substitutefont</a> package.</p>
<p>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 <a class="reference external" href="usage.pdf">usage.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>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 <cite>Babel</cite> language <tt class="literal">greek</tt> or <tt class="literal">polutionikogreek</tt>).
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).</p>
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