File name: README
Version: 4.0
Author: Dimitrios Filippou
Date: Aug. 16, 2004
This file contains a brief description of the Greek hyphenation-
pattern files for TeX/LaTeX (and for Omega) prepared by Dimitrios
Filippou.
The patterns were originally designed for the "greek" option of
"babel" and Dryllerakis' GreeKTeX package. However, this set can
be used to produce hyphenation patterns for typesetting Greek with
the "ibycus" option of "babel" (package "ibycus-babel") or with
Omega/lambda (package "antomega").
The hyphenation patterns for "ibycus" (for ancient Greek *only*)
can be produced by running a perl script on "grahyph.tex". The
perl script has been written by Peter Heslin (
[email protected])
as part of his "ibycus-babel" package.
The hyphenation patterns for Omega/lambda (files "ogr*.tex") can be
produced by running a perl script on "grahyph.tex", "grahyph.tex"
and "grahyph.tex". The perl script has been written by Apostolos
Syropoulos (
[email protected]) as part of the "antomega"
package. THESE PATTERNS HAVE NOT BEEN TESTED. ANY FEEDBACK IS
WELCOME!
This package supersedes all previous versions found in CTAN. A more
detailed description of how hyphenation of Greek works (in English)
is presented in the TUG2004 conference and is included in the
conference proceedings (to be published by Springer in the series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Possible caveats:
1) You may not get proper hyphenation in paragraphs with mixed
Greek and non-Greek text. This is a known TeX problem. Using eTeX
(or the latest LaTeX releases which are based on eTeX) can resolve
this problem. -- Bug reported by Peter Heslin (
[email protected])
2) Initial accentuated vowels may not be hyphenated under Omega/
lambda: e.g., under Omega/lambda, the word ">aet'oc" (eagle) may be
be hyphenated as ">ae-t'oc" instead of ">a-e-t'oc". To fix this
problem I must add an extra series of hyphenation patterns in the
original "gr?hyph.tex" and then convert them to "ogr?hyph.tex". But
this way I would mess my original "gr?hyph.tex" and I don't want to
do that. -- Bug reported by Alexej Krioukov (
[email protected])
Acknowledgements
The author wishes to thank all those mentioned who have contributed
directly and indirectly to the creation of these pattern files:
C. Beccari, K. Dryllerakis, Y. Haralambous, P. Heslin, S. Konstandatos
A. Krioukov and A. Syropoulos.
File Description
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ancient.pdf PDF file. Reproduced with permission from Eutypon,
no. 5, Oct. 2000, pp. 7-16. It describes the
hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek. [In Greek.]
anc-test.pdf PDF file. It gives examples of hyphenated ancient
Greek texts. [Obviously in Greek.]
compound.pdf PDF file. It lists all ancient Greek compound words
that need proper hyphenation patterns. [In Greek.]
modern.pdf PDF file. Reproduced with permission from Eutypon,
no. 4, Apr. 2000, pp. 1-16. It describes the
hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek. [In Greek.]
grahyph4.tex Hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek typeset with
the "polutonikogreek" option of "babel" or with
Dryllerakis GreeKTeX (can be used also for
"Katharevousa").
grmhyph4.tex Hyphenation patterns for monotonic (uni-accent)
modern Greek typeset with the "greek" option of
"babel" or with Dryllerakis GreeKTeX.
grphyph4.tex Hyphenation patterns for polytonic (multi-accent)
modern Greek typeset with the "polutonikogreek"
option of "babel" or with Dryllerakis GreeKTeX.
README This file.
copyrite.txt The copyright file. -- Please, read before you pass
around this set of files.
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2008-July-24 JH: Replaced GRAhyph4.tex, GRMhyph4.tex, and GRPhype4.tex
with corresponding gr?hyph5.tex. It is needed for 8-bit engines by new
pattern loaders hyph-utf8.
