On 12 Jun 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > This is not about conversion but display: > > * If you paste polytonic Greek text from e.g. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_diacritics, this should show up in > greek letters with diacritics at the correct place. > > * If you input latin letters and ASCII-chars for diacritics following the > convention of the "greek" language option of babel and set the language > to "greek", these will be converted to greek letters in the output > only. > > This is the same level of support as for German, say where e.g. "a is > converted to รค in the output (but not in LyX). > > It differs from the handling of math symbols where a set of known > symbol-commands like \alpha or \int are rendered as symbols in LyX. > [snip]
Yes, this was the conclusion I was coming to myself. A bit of background to all this: my wife is Greek and needs to type Greek occasionally; she is also a purist about accents etc. (Byzantine enthusiast). She is not happy seeing non-Greek characters on screen. After quite a lot of work I managed to get vim (gvim) to show Greek characters on-screen and to print Greek via Latex, but she can't do it without help from me because it requires a familiarity with Latex which she doesn't have. I was hoping things might be simpler with Lyx but seemingly not. Thanks for the Thessalonica suggestion; it may be a viable alternative. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles)
