On 11 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > 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
It still doesn't work here. That is, the tilde comes out before the letter, not on top of it. But I think this is something to do with the current version of Latex, not Lyx, because the same thing is now happening in native Latex as well. Looks like I shall have to give up trying to write Greek in Lyx and Latex for the time being, unless someone fixes it. This is on Debian Sid. I haven't tried in my rather ancient version of Ubuntu. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
