Greetings all,

I'm currently looking to switch to LyX from TexShop in order to work on my thesis. I use a lot of Ancient Greek in my documents, so the first step is to make sure I can correctly import my current files into .lyx format.

I've figured out how to make it work, *mostly*. Unfortunately, I've run into a weird problem with how the tex2lyx program handles polytonic Greek in utf8. For instance, the following document snippet shows part of my original chapter in LaTeX:

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\documentclass[12pt,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
...
\begin{quote}
\gkq{...ὡς οὔσης τῆς φύσεως ἀρχῆς τινὸς καὶ αἰτίας τοῦ κινεῖσθαι καὶ ἠρεμεῖ, ἐν ᾧ ὑπάρχει πρώτως καθ᾿ αὑτὸ καὶ μὴ κατὰ συμβεβηκός.}\footnote{\emph{Physics, 192b20-23}.}
\end{quote}
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In Lyx, this becomes the following (taken from LyX's source view):

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\begin{quote}
\gkq{...ὡ\textgreek{c} οὔ\textgreek{svηc} τῆ\textgreek{c} φύ\textgreek{svεωc} ἀρχῆ\textgreek{c} τινὸ\textgreek{c} καὶ αἰτία\textgreek{c} τοῦ κινεῖ\textgreek{svθαι} καὶ ἠρεμεῖ, ἐν ᾧ ὑπάρχει πρώτω\textgreek{c} καθ᾿ αὑτὸ καὶ μὴ κατὰ
\textgreek{svυμβεβηκόc}}%
\footnote{\emph{Physics, 192b20-23}.%
}
\end{quote}
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The Greek *looks* OK in the LyX GUI, but doesn't process properly when I export to XeTeX and run xdvipdfmx on the resulting file.

Does anyone know what causes this, and what I could do to prevent tex2lyx from attempting to "translate" my Greek?

Thanks,
Erik Norvelle

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