Michael Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> I am working on a linguistic presentation in Beamer (theme = Singapore).
> Single upright Greek characters need to be inserted here and there.
> Many hours spent on experiments and attempts to use Greek characters
> ended up in Latex errors.
>
> openSuse 13.2, KDE 4.14.3, Lyx 2.1.2 (everything up to date)
> I have installed:
> texlive-greek-fontenc
> texlive-greek-inputenc
> texlive-greektex
> texlive-textcase
> texlive-textgreek
you need texlive-babel-greek
> A) Inserting Greek characters somewhere in the standard text:
>
> - Insert>Special Character>Symbols - Greek/Greek Extended = failed for
> Greek while most other character types do work
What does "failed" exactly mean?
Does it work if you set the language to Greek via edit > text style?
> - Insert>Math>Inline Formula = works, but characters are slanted
>
> - Using the Character Selector with copy & paste = failure for Greek
> while many other do work
>
> - $\alpha$ etc. in an ERT box does of course work, but produces slanted
> characters
>
> B) Inserting Greek characters in glosses
> Absolute failure; neither can copied Greek characters be pasted.
> Strikingly though that some other special characters can be inserted in
> glosses using the character selector!
You need to load greek language from babel and then use transliteration as
described here (e.g., \textgreek{pragmatik'oc}):
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/babel-contrib/greek/usage.pdf
Or switch the main encoding to utf8 and embrace the greek text in the glosse
by \textgreek (such as \textgreek{πραγματικός})
HTH
Jürgen
