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skorpan

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Registered: 2007-11-09

Posts: 81

How do I use Greek letters in XeTeX?

Hi

I'd like a straight-forward Arch Linux way of using Greek letters in my XeTeX document. E.g., I'd like to write "αστήρ" in my document, so my questions are:

* Which packages should I install?
* Which font should I install?
* Which LaTeX package should I use in my document?
* What do I insert around the Greek text to make it use the Greek font?

That's all.

Thanks

Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: How do I use Greek letters in XeTeX?

AFAIK, it works fairly much out of the box.  See:
http://www.pt.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/t1.gif

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skorpan

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Registered: 2007-11-09

Posts: 81

Re: How do I use Greek letters in XeTeX?

While that is true, it would become cumbersome to keep using escape codes for such things.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: How do I use Greek letters in XeTeX?

There are scripts like this one for vim that make it somewhat less work:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=93

Also, latex-suite (use svn from AUR) can also take some of the work out of it:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25907

bwalk

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Registered: 2007-03-21

Posts: 177

Re: How do I use Greek letters in XeTeX?

You do not want to use the greek math symbols to write normal greek text. If that is what you want, you need a localized version of TeX and a respective font.