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Using LyX to write Greek

Since version 1.6, LyX supports both modern (monotonico) and ancient (polytonico) Greek with either Unicode input or the LGR transliteration.

Table of contents

Preparing system for Greek
1. 1.1 LaTeX
2. 1.2 Screen Fonts
Input & typeset greek
Open problems and discussion
1. 3.1 Accents
2. 3.2 Math and greek
3. 3.3 English parts in a Greek document
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Preparing system for Greek

In order to generate output documents in (or containing) Greek, you need to have Greek support in your LaTeX installation.

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LaTeX

Debian/Ubuntu: install texlive-lang-greek. Additional Greek-supporting features and fonts are in the packages texlive-fonts-extra and texlive-latex-extra.

There is a range of high quality LaTeX fonts supporting Greek including Latin Modern, Kerkis and the TeX Gyre fonts.

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Screen Fonts

To see Greek characters in LyX, you need to select Unicode fonts in Tools>Preferences>Screen Fonts. DejaVu is widely supported and optimized for on-screen viewing (see also http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-greek-fonts-p17750109.html).

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Input & typeset greek

LyX can handle greek text in Unicode encoding (e.g. copied from somewhere else or input with a Greek system keyboard or via the Symbols table in LyX) since version 1.6 out of the box.

Proper hyphenation and babel support is achieved if you set the language to Greek (or Greek (polytonic):

document wide with Document>Settings>Language
for Greek text parts with Edit>Text Style>Customized>Language

The LyX functions for setting the text language are language greek respectively language polutonikogreek. These can be given in the minibuffer or bound to a key.

Attention: Due to babel limitations, you cannot use greek and polutonikogreek in one document!

If the language is set to Greek, Latin text will be transliterated according to the rules of the LGR font encoding, so that e.g. logos results in λογοσ.

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Open problems and discussion

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Accents

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-greek-fonts-p17750678.html http://www.nabble.com/greek-fonts-to17716471.html http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-greek-fonts-%28summary-%29-p17795821.html

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Math and greek

http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=17604091&framed=y

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English parts in a Greek document

While typing some Greek word in English text will work out of the box (and without setting the correct language), the opposite is not working: If the language of a text portion is set to Greek, Latin (ASCII) letters are interpreted as a transcription of Greek which leeds to "Greeklisch".

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg71329.html

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Greek

Using LyX to write Greek

Preparing system for Greek

LaTeX

Screen Fonts

Input & typeset greek

Open problems and discussion

Accents

Math and greek

English parts in a Greek document

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