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grchyph.tex
Unicode hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek.
Created: January 9th, 2006
First release: June 7th, 2006
Revised: (not yet)
Version: 0.1
Created by Yves Codet with Jonathan Kew's help, after Claudio Beccari's
"grhyph.tex".
This package can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
of the LaTeX Project Public License.
These patterns are meant for XeTeX, a Unicode variant of TeX. They are
merely phonetic and *do not* take etymology into consideration. After
being compiled into a format, they can be activated with the command:
\language=\greek
In LaTeX, if your document is entirely in Greek, you can write the command
in your preamble, for instance:
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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{Lucida Grande}
\language=\greek
\begin{document}
Ἐν Λέσβῳ θηρῶν ἐν ἄλσει Νυμφῶν θέαμα εἶδον κάλλιστον ὧν
εἶδον· εἰκόνα γραπτήν, ἱστορίαν ἔρωτος.
\end{document}
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If there is another language in your source file, you can define a new
font instance and a new command, for instance:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\setromanfont{Lucida Grande} % font
% "Lucida Grande" with French hyphenation called by "Babel"
\newfontinstance\greekfont{Lucida Grande}
\newcommand{\gr}[1]{{\language=\greek\greekfont{#1}}} % the same
% font with Greek hyphenation called by the command
% "\language=\greek"
\begin{document}
\gr{Ἐν Λέσβῳ θηρῶν ἐν ἄλσει Νυμφῶν θέαμα εἶδον κάλλιστον ὧν
εἶδον· εἰκόνα γραπτήν, ἱστορίαν ἔρωτος.}
Alors que je chassais à Lesbos dans un bois consacré aux Nymphes,
je vis le plus beau spectacle que j'aie jamais vu: une image peinte, une
histoire d'amour.
\end{document}
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I never use plainTeX, so I don't know how to do the same with it. If a
plainTeX user is willing to send me the equivalents of the above, I'll be
grateful.
Please send corrections and suggestions to:
ycodet@club-internet.fr
These hyphenation patterns are under the LaTeX Project Public License.