Author: Apostolos Syropoulos, Dimitrios Filippou, Günter Milde

# 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 <milde@users.sf.net>
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

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

lgrenc.dfu

  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 lgrenc.dfu.html.

iso-8859-7.def

  Greek input encoding file for ISO 8859-7 by Apostolos Syropoulos. [1]

macgreek.def

  Greek input encoding file for Macintosh (ELOT 823) by Dimitrios Filippou. [1]

Test examples and output:
  utf-8

    greek-utf8.tex, greek-utf8.pdf (comprehensive example)

  iso 8859-7

    test-iso-8859-7.tex, test-iso-8859-7.pdf (basic test)

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  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.

# 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.