On 10 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > On 10.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I tried to use Lyx for ancient Greek but the circumflex (tilde) > > > > > > keeps > > > > > > appearing before the letter instead of above it. > > > > > > In most fonts, even in the "Standard glyph list" of the Unicode > > > consortium and fonts from the Greek Font Society, the accents are written > > > before the letter for capital letters and over the letter for small > > > letters. > > > All the accents appear correctly over the letters except for the > > circumflex (tilde). But in plain Latex the circumlex is correct. > > Could you post a *small* example file (lyx and tex)? > > Günter
1. Greek lyx: #LyX 1.5.5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 276 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass book \begin_preamble % This file was converted from HTML to LaTeX with % Tomasz Wegrzanowski's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gnuhtml2latex program % Version : 0.1 \end_preamble \language greek \inputencoding auto \font_roman palatino \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family rmdefault \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize 11 \spacing other 1.1 \papersize custom \use_geometry true \use_amsmath 0 \use_esint 0 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \paperwidth 6in \paperheight 9in \leftmargin 0.85in \topmargin 0.85in \rightmargin 0.85in \bottommargin 0.85in \secnumdepth 2 \tocdepth 2 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language swedish \papercolumns 1 \papersides 2 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "" \author "" \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard this is me~ant to b`e >in Gre'ek \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_body \end_document ---------------------------------- 2. Greek Tex \documentclass{article} \usepackage[polutonikogreek]{babel} \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc} \begin{document} \selectlanguage{polutonikogreek} \Large Per`i t~hs >amuntik~hs leitourg'ias t~hs >ekklhsiastik~hs gl'wssas Ðåñ`é ô~çó >áìõíôéê~çó ëåéôïõñã'éáó ô~çó >åêêëçóéáóôéê~çó ãë'ùóóáò \bigskip >H <Orj'odoxh <Ekklhs'ia sugkrote~ita st`hn pr'axh di'afores \end{document} -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)