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THE TEUBNER PACKAGE VERSION 4.x OF DECEMBER 2013
EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING
Copyright 2001-2004-2013 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
dated 2008-05-04 or later as it appears in
CTAN/macros/latex/base/lppl.tex.
This bundle contains the following files
README short information abut installing this bundle
teubner.txt this file
teubner.dtx documented TeX file
teubner-doc.tex documentation file
teubner.pdf technical documentation
teubner-doc.pdf usage documentation
teubnerx.sty the specific add on for complementing the TX fonts
By running pdflatex on teubner.dtx in addition to the documentation
file teubner.pdf, the byproduct files teubner.sty, teubnertx.sty, are
generated; teubner-doc.pdf must be generated by running pdflatex on the
source file teubner-doc.tex file.
These two .pdf files are already contained in the bundle
The previous versions 3.x of this packages used a LGRaccents-glyphs.def
file, that now is not necessary, and is not contained in this bundle any
more.
File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can be
done with this extension package and displays several examples.
Version 4.x of the teubner package contains many new enhancements, among
which it's worth noting the compliance with the new Greek language
support to babel, 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 CBfonts
together with other PostScript scalable fonts; the compatibility with
the Times and the Palatino eXtended fonts, through the packages txfonts
and pxfonts, are already built in; the compatibility with the Latin
Modern fonts was already available with version 2.x of this package.
While this package was upgraded and uploaded to CTAN, Antonis Tsolomitis
uploaded the package txfontsb which adds the possibility of using nice
TX compatible greek fonts when using the TX latin fonts so as to let the
users typeset their documents in mixed script.
The upright shape resembles the traditional Didot one, and the italic
shape resembles the Lipsian one; they come in both the medium and the
bold series and match the TX latin fonts pretty well.
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
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 it; 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
generated files are teubner.sty and the aforementioned teubnertx.sty
file; they must be moved where TeX-the-program can find them. This
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 /texmmf one in your Home directory
containing a tex directory which on turn contains a latex directory.
Under the latter one create a new directory named, say, teubner, and
move there teubner.sty, and teubnertx.sty.
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.
For what concerns fonts, they should already be installed with a recent
TeX system distribution; this means that there are already all the
files TeX-the-program needs in order to do its work; there is one
point, though, that requires full attention; the default basic TeX
system installation loads only the PostScript fonts in size 10pt; all
other sizes are are obtained by reducing or enlarging that single size.
A complete TeX system installation does not exhibit this limitation.
There are also non standard scalable Type 1 fonts, such for example, the
Fourier ones, that come only in one size, the 10pt one; for these
fonts it is not strictly necessary to do the same with the sizes of the
CBfonts, but if you prefer you can.
In any case the teubner package copes with this situation if you specify
the "10pt" option when calling this package, but if you want to have
perfect optical sizes, then you should download from CTAN the full
collection and install it in your computer. The details for this
installation require you read with due attention the instructions that
come with your TeX system distribution; it's not difficult, but it
requires to be very careful at every step. Remember, though, that your
Package Manager can do all the work for you.
It's important to control that you have the latest CBfonts; even if you
got them pre-installed with your TeX system distribution, may be they
are not the latest version. The full collection has been redone in
the year 2007, and partially upgraded in 2010; the reduced collection is
a subset of the full one. Earlier distributions, dated at least 2002,
might be compatible; if you notice something strange with the CBfonts,
verify if your fonts are up to date.
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
CBfonts may be an index that you still have the babel package locked at
a version number earlier than 3.9g. I suggest you to upgrade your TeX
system to the most up to date one you can find on CTAN.
This point is connected with the question of the updated metric files
related to the Lipsian fonts; if your TeX system distribution has been
updated to what was available on CTAN by May 2010, your distribution
already contains the updated .tfm files. Otherwise, please, update your
CBfonts.
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 specialised in classical/
ancient European languages, such as classical Greek, Latin, and so on.
This set of extension commands has been tested in several documents;
Since I am neither a philologist nor a Greek scholar, I prepared them as
a *hobby* while trying to help 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 most dreadful possible
things that may happen to anybody using 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 face the consequences
(... which, nevertheless, I hope they are what you expected).
If you find this package of some utility but you find some errors and/or
some glitches, please write me an e-mail (see below). If you'd like me
to realise 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 don't guarantee I'll be able to satisfy your request, but I'll
give it a try. In any case don't ask for things LaTeX can't do; and if
you use LaTeX, you know what are its pros and cons.
Happy philological LaTeXing!
Claudio Beccari Turin, October 2014
Former Professor of Electronics
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
claudio dot beccari at gmail dot com
PS: I underline my former professorship in electronics, in order to
stress the point that I am not a philologist, therefore beware: this
work might be simply "trash" to the eyes of a real philologist!
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