On Friday 15 October 2004 12:21, Jon Riding wrote:
> I'm new to LyX and trying to discover whether LyX can handle
> an English document which includes words and phrases in Greek.
>
> Given that the Greek character set (including composites of
> base characters and breathings/diacritics) is defined in
> Unicode I figured I should be able to tell LyX to map my
> (English) keyboard to the Greek code points I want in Unicode.
>
> Is this possible or is LyX simply not the tool I should be
> using for this sort of thing? If it can be done where can I
> find out how? Any assistance much appreciated.
I have not yet upgraded to the latest version, but as far as I know LyX does
not yet support Unicode (if so, there would be no problem). Personally,
whenever I need a large amount of Greek text I write LaTeX code directly
using gvim. If you are interested in an example, mail me privately and I'll
send you a minimal file.
For short texts, add this in your preamble in LyX:
\usepackage[greek,german]{babel} <------ or other languages
\languageattribute{greek}{polutoniko} <------ here is the attribute
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
This is copied from a message posted by Matej Cepl (1/10/2003). You won't see
Greek as you type but the DVI should be perfect. Good for short quotations.
g.
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Guido Milanese
Vocal Ensemble Ars Antiqua, Genova (Genoa), Italy
http://www.arsantiqua.org
