Dear friends,
I am trying to "greekify" XeLaTex in order to make it easier for greek writers
to use. I have translated almost all the commands (e.g., instead of
\begin{document} I can use \αρχή{κειμένου}, etc.) that I could think of and
made new article, book etc. classes with the greek commands. These new classes
just renew the commands etc. and they work rather well. There are a few errors
still that I try to figure out, but there are also a couple of things that I do
not know how to do and, therefore, ask your advise/help.
1. I could replace almost all commands of (Xe)LaTeX, but I can do nothing with
the very first one: \documentclass{}! Is there a way to change the name of this
command so that the XeLaTeX engine still understands it? I am looking for
solutions that will not include any extra (latin) text in the source file, as
this would defy the purpose.
2. While I have changed the names for "Chapter", "Figure", the dates, the
numbers, capitalisation etc. (thanks for all this go to the work of Syropoylos
in Xanthi), I do not know how to change things as, e.g., [c] (center) to [κ]
(κέντρο), the length units (from mm το χ etc.). For the time being I would not
change anything in the math environments.
3. I do not know how to change the alphabetical order in "makeindex". Usually
the accented vowels follow the corresponding unaccented ones in a greek index,.
This is not the case for "makeindex", as it follows the unicode listing. which
is defined differently, and the result looks wrong in a greek index list
(ευρετήριο).
The idea behind the changes is that a writer of greek text (or arab, chinese
etc.) should not be obliged to change his/her computer keyboard to latin for
the commands and back again for the text. Also the names of the commands would
be more transparent for non-english speakers.
Every help on this would be appreciated. I can send you the tentative cls, sty,
etc. files that I have generated, if you are interested to try (but I am afraid
they will be all greek to you, literally).
Thanks
Alexandros D. Gotsjs
Assoc.Prof., Technical University of Crete
tel +30-2821037259
http://users.isc.tuc.gr/~gotsis/
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