dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (07/17/90)
In article <1990Jul16.234056.11998@midway.uchicago.edu>, ethan@sam.uchicago.edu (Ethan Ligon) writes... >I am a tex neophyte, but I have been looking for a way to produce high >quality output of greek characters, and tex comes highly recommended. >The problem is that I need more than the usual mathematician's complement >of greek characters; in particular, I need to be able to write greek >characters with a variety of diacritical marks, etc. >Could anyone familiar with tex fonts with these sorts of features let me >know where I can find such? Two good Greek fonts for text are available from ymir.claremont.edu in subdirectories of [anonymous.tex.babel.greek] [anonymous.tex.babel.greek.levy] Contains the "original" text Greek font; it breaks down in a few places and is missing a few obscure characters (digamma, koppa...) but is otherwise quite nice. [anonymous.tex.babel.greek.yannis] Contains a more recent "Reduced Greek" font. It has been modified to fit into a 128-character framework but has all the letters of the Greek alphabet in its many variations (not only are obsolete letters provided, but also a version for typesetting Cypriotic Greek). This has a problem with one of the fonts and TeX 3.0 (if you do use TeX 3.0, running tftopl followed by pltotf on the offending TFM seems to fix the problem). [anonymous.tex.babel.greek.hamilton_kelly] is provided mostly out of historical interest. It's a quick-and-dirty Greek whose letter forms are based very closely on the Math Greek. It only has modern accenting (no breathings &c) -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147