Greetings all,
I forgot to send this last time with UTF-8 encoding... sorry.
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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Note the insertion of a bunch of \textgreek{} commands and the
"translation" of letters like "σ" into \textgreek{sv}. 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 in advance for any help you can offer,
Erik Norvelle
