From: Mullen, J. P. (Contractor) <mul...@tr...> - 2002-09-23 21:57:58
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Hi, More information about using the Greek language is in the file \texmf\doc\generic\Babel\user.dvi, starting on page 17. John Mullen -----Original Message----- From: Mullen, John P. (Contractor) [mailto:mul...@tr...] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:44 PM To: mik...@li... Subject: RE: [MiKTeX] RE: (no subject) Hi Thodoros, If your intent is to use Greek letters in math, the $\alpha$ method is probably the best. However, if your intent is to write a document in the Greek language, that is something else. This seems to work: --------------------- \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} \usepackage[greek]{babel} \begin{document} abcdefg hijklmnop qrstuvwxyz ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ \end{document} -------------------------- I have the full MiKTeX implementation. This may not work without installing additional packages if you used one of the smaller options. Then again, it might. John Mullen -----Original Message----- From: Thodoros Papatheodorou [mailto:pa...@ma...] Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 3:16 PM To: mik...@li... Subject: [MiKTeX] RE: (no subject) Hi John, Thanks for the interest. The problem that DVI viewer doesn't show greek letters correctly (shows diffrerent greek letters) happens when I type in the .tex file the actual symbols of Windows screen font. I tried a .tex file with $\alpha, \beta$ in a line and DVI viewer showed the greek letters correctly. I tried a solution that was proposed in some info pages, i.e. I put at the beginning of the .tex file the line %& -translate-file=win2tex.tcx where win2tex.tcx was a file prepared by me with the mappings of Windows' character codes to TeX's character codes. It worked correctly for the first few letters when I was testing it, but then it crashed because it was affecting TeX (TeX showed a message that it was unable to find a file - the name of the file had a greek letter because of my mappings). A possible reason for TeX's crashing is that TeX used the command \inputenc somewhere which doesn't work together with a .tcx file, according to the same info pages. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ MiKTeX-Users mailing list MiK...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ MiKTeX-Users mailing list MiK...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users |