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EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING
Copyright 2001-2006 Claudio Beccari
The programs contained in this bundle can be redistributed and/or
modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License
Distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt;
either version 1.3 of the License, or any later version.
This bundle contains the following files
teubner.txt this file
teubner.dtx documented TeX file
teubner.ins installation file
teubner-doc.pdf documentation file
teubner-doc.tex source documentation file
File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can
be done with this extension package and displays several examples.
The first edition of this file could not resort to scalable type 1 Greek
fonts (2001); by the end of 2002 such fonts were available on CTAN,
therefore this edition not only reports the enhancements introduced in
version 2.0 but also it displays and prints perfectly.
In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to
install it. Run teubner.ins through LaTeX; the generated file is
teubner.sty and must be moved where TeX the program can find it.
This depends very much on your particular implementation of the
TeX system, but if your system copes with the standard TeX
directory structure and with a multiplicity of different root
directory structures, you probably have a localtexmf root,
containing a tex directory which on turn contains a latex
directory. Under the latter directory create a new directory,
named, say, teubner, and move there teubner.sty.
I suggest you to create a directory teubner in the doc directory
of the localtexmf rooted structure and move there both
teubner-doc.pdf and teubner.dvi that you get by running LaTeX
directly on teubner.dtx.
For what concerns the fonts, I suggest you download the type 1 pdf fonts
from CTAN: there you can get also the tfm files and the sources for all
the Greek and metric symbol files; in case you prefer to use the raster
fonts generated by METAFONT you can download also the source METAFONT
files.
In the texmf rooted directory structure there should be a file
under fontname, named special.map; edit such file and possibly add the
line
gmtr public teubner
possibly preceded by a comment line of the form
@c Metric symbols font
This last task is not really necessary, but it is useful, because
the generated tfm and pixel files will be automatically deposited
in the proper directories, with no confusion with other fonts.
Another important step is to control that you have the latest CB
Greek fonts; even if you got them installed with the TeX system
installation program, may be they are not the latest version,
compatible with this extension package. Control your cbgreek.txt
file and at the end of the file there is its date; this date
should be not earlier than 15th of August 2002. If the date is earlier
than this, connect to CTAN and download the latest version of the CB
Greek fonts both in METAFONT and in pfb type 1 format. Follow the
instructions for inserting the proper files in the proper directories,
and for adding the proper map file to the configuration files of dvips
and pdfLaTeX. If you already had the metric tfm files, remember to
delete them in order to have them generated on the fly by LaTeX or
pdfLaTeX, or download the newer tfm files from CTAN.
Another question you might ask yourself: is my TeX system complete and
up to date? The fact you installed a TeX system and you did not have the
CB fonts may be an index that you still have the babel package locked at
a version number earlier than 3.7. I suggest you to upgrade your TeX
system to the most up to date one you can find on CTAN.
After all these steps are done, you are ready to use your teubner
extensions; it will not be easy at the beginning, because there
are hundreds of new commands. Be sure to have already thoroughly
read the documentation file teubner-doc.pdf and that you have the
hard copy close to you. Remember though that most commands are
latin names or abbreviations that should be familiar to any
philologist specialized in classical/ancient European languages,
such as classical Greek, classical Latin, et cetera.
This set of extension commands has been tested in several
documents; nevertheless I prepared them as a hobby, in the hope of
helping a philologist friend. I hope this package may be useful
also to you, but I must disclaim any liability for any unwanted
results you might get, including the worst possible things that my
happen to anybody working with a computer. I will not write down
any strong disclaimer sentence in capital letters, because it
should be absolutely evident that I did something I consider
useful, but is up to you to decide to use it and to face the
consequences (... which nevertheless I hope they are what you
expected).
If you find this package of some utility and you find some errors
and/or some glitches, please write me by e-mail
(claudio.beccari@polito.it). If you'd like me to realize some other
commands, please send me by e-mail your request together with a
scanned image containing the visual result you'd like to obtain. I
do not guarantee I'll be able to satisfy your request, but I'll
give it a try. In any case don't ask things LaTeX can't do; and if
you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons.
Happy philological LaTeXing!
Claudio Beccari
Dipartimento di Elettronica
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Turin, 16th of January 2006
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