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Greek support for 8-bit (La)TeX
*******************************
LaTeX Internal Character Representations for Greek
==================================================
State of the art
----------------
Greek LICRs are defined/used by the packages
:lgrx: lgrxenc.def, lgrenc.dfu,
:hyperref: puenc.def,
:ucs: uni3.def, uni31.def,
:xunicode: xunicode.sty
:textgreek: textgreek.sty,
Currently,
* there are incompatibilities between the definitions of archaic characters
and variants.
* Babel and the EU2 encoding (eu2enc.def) miss Greek LICRs.
* Only lgrx and ucs define LICRs for the "Extended Greek" Unicode block.
Proposals
---------
* Agree on a common set of `LaTeX Internal Character Representations` (LICR)
for Greek characters of the "Greek and Coptic" and the "Extended Greek"
Unicode blocks.
* Update "participating" packages/projects to support the common Greek LICRs.
The general rule should be to generate the common set but accept
compatibility and convenience aliases.
* Use LICRs instead of LGR specific transliteration for representation of
Greek characters in
:babel: "Babel strings" in greek.ldf
:greek-inputenc: currently translates to LGR-specific Latin transliteration
* Document the LICRs for use in external "to-LaTeX converters" and
LaTeX-generating programs (recode, LyX, Docutils, pandoc, Python codecs,
...)
CTAN organization
=================
With the Babel version 3.8b, came some changes to the file organization:
Babel language files are "outsourced" and are located in a separate
directory ...
...
- Fonts are not strictly part of a language, so they are best placed in
the corresponding TeX tree. This includes not only tfm, vf, ps1, otf, mf
files and the like, but also fd ones.
- Font and input encodings are usually best placed in the corresponding
tree, too, but sometimes they belong more naturally to the babel style.
Note you may also need to define a LICR.
-- http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/babel/base/CONTRIB
CB-Font definition files
------------------------
The *.fd files now in babel-contrib/greek/ set up the CB-Fonts as CM and LM
substitute. They could move to the cb-complete package.
http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/greek/greek.fdd
Encodings
---------
Greek input and font encodings can be used independent from babel.
Currently, http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek/encodings
is a link to greek-inputenc/ while the LGR font encoding is defined in
babel-contrib/greek and lgrx.
I propose to change "language/greek/encodings" to a directory with the
subdirectories "greek-inputenc" and "greek-fontenc"
The new package "greek-fontenc" should contain the LGR font definition file
"lgrenc.def", documentation and tests, replacing both lgrenc.def from Babel
and lgrxenc.def from lgrx.
In future, it may also hold a comprehensive font encoding definition for LGI
and (if this ever comes to live) T7.
"greek-inputenc" should be updated to use LICRs and to include
"lgrenc.dfu" now in lgrx.
Related packages
================
See also http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/greek
LICR and encodings
------------------
Babel http://www.ctan.org/pkg/babel
Multilingual support for Plain TeX or LaTeX
"Since version 3.9b, Babel uses contributed configuration files that
provide the detail of what has to be done for each language."
Babel-Greek http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/greek
Greek language support for babel
lgrx http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lgrx
Greek text with the LGR font encoding
greek-inputenc
Macintosh Greek encoding and ISO 8859-7 definition files for use
with inputenc.
xunicode http://www.ctan.org/pkg/xunicode
Generate Unicode characters from accented glyphs
EUenc http://www.ctan.org/pkg/euenc
Font encoding definitions for unicode fonts loaded by LaTeX in X∃TeX
or LuaTeX. The package provides two encodings: — EU1, designed for
use with X∃TeX, which the fontspec uses for unicode fonts which require
no macro-level processing for accents, and — EU2, which provides the
same facilities for use with LuaTeX.
hyperref http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyperref
handle cross-referencing commands in LaTeX to produce hypertext
links in the document
ucs http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ucs
Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX
textgreek
Upright greek letters in text
Fonts in LGR encoding
---------------------
Only fonts available in T1 (vector) format are listed.
CB Fonts http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cbgreek-complete
Complete set of Greek fonts matching CM
Kerkis http://www.ctan.org/pkg/kerkis
Sans-serif Greek fonts to match the URW Bookman
dejavu http://www.ctan.org/pkg/dejavu
LaTeX support for the DejaVu fonts
Epigrafica http://www.ctan.org/pkg/epigrafica
Epigrafica is forked from the development of the MgOpen font
Cosmetica, which is a similar design to Optima and includes Greek.
GFS fonts http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gfs
Fonts from The Greek Font Society
(Antonis Tsolomitis, George D. Matthiopoulos)
txfontsb http://www.ctan.org/pkg/txfontsb
Extensions to txfonts, using GNU Freefont
grkfinst http://www.ctan.org/pkg/grkfinst
plug-in for fontinst, for installing Greek Type 1 fonts
Others
------
teubner http://www.ctan.org/pkg/teubner
Philological typesetting of classical Greek
hyphenation
hyphenation-greek http://www.ctan.org/pkg/hyphenation-greek
elhyphen http://www.ctan.org/pkg/elhyphen
Developers
==========
Apostolos Syropoulos no longer works on/for 8-bit LaTeX.
==================================================== =====================
Alexej Kryukov <basileia@yandex.ru> grkfinst
Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomitis@gmail.com> gfs
Claudio Beccari <claudio.beccari@gmail.com> teubner
Dimitrios Filippou <dimitrios.ap.filippou@gmail.com> inputenc, hyphenation
Günter Milde <milde@users.sf.net> lgrx
Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberdiek@googlemail.com> hyperref
Javier Bezos <listas@tex-tipografia.com> babel
Leonard Michlmayr <leonard.michlmayr@gmail.com> textgreek
Pavel Farář <pavel.farar@centrum.cz> dejavu
Ross Moore <ross.moore@mq.edu.au> xunicode
Will Robertson <wspr81@gmail.com> EUENC
Elie Roux <elie.roux@telecom-bretagne.eu> EUENC
Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> EUENC
Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@cs.ioc.ee> ucs
==================================================== =====================
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