On 11.06.08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > 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.
Unfortunately, lyx currently only supports modern Greek, but has no support for polytonic Greek (babel option polutonikogreek). However, this can be easily fixed by adding polutonikogreek to the languages file and re-configuring: --- /usr/share/lyx/languages 2008-05-14 11:36:44.000000000 +0200 +++ ~/.lyx/languages 2008-06-11 13:09:27.000000000 +0200 @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ german german "German" false iso8859-15 de_DE "" ngerman ngerman "German (new spelling)" false iso8859-15 de_DE "" greek greek "Greek" false iso8859-7 el_GR "" +polutonikogreek polutonikogreek "Greek (polytonic)" false iso8859-7 el_GR "" hebrew hebrew "Hebrew" true cp1255 he_IL "" #hungarian hungarian "Hungarian" false iso8859-2 hu_HU "" irish irish "Irish" false iso8859-15 ga_IE "" With this fix, your lyx example can be set to use the language "Greek (polytonic)". However, as the tilde acts as a non-breakable space in LaTeX, it is escaped by LyX (converted to \asciitilde) and hence the example will only work right, if you put the tilde (or the whole text) in an ERT box or just insert a non-breakable space instead. See the attached example. Question to the developers: Would it be possible to pass the tilde '~' to LaTeX as-is if the language is set to polutonikogreek? > > > All the accents appear correctly over the letters except for the > > > circumflex (tilde). But in plain Latex the circumflex is correct. A tilde is not a circumflex: Character '~' (126, 0x7E) 007E TILDE Character '^' (94, 0x5E) 005E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT > 2. Greek Tex ... Now I see. Your example uses polutonikogreek. With greek, the tilde is replaced by a space. With the above patch, I can import your latex example, set the language to Greek (polytonic) and it displays as expected. With Document>Settings>Language>Encoding set to utf8x, LyX can handle accented (polytonic) Greek characters like the example 2 copied directly from the Wikipedia even with language == Greek. Günter
greek-test-campbell.lyx
Description: application/lyx
greek-german-test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
