Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:14:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Language support in jadetex? Message-ID: <873anb0wjh.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080618.144751.42861091.hrs@allbsd.org> (Hiroki Sato's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:47:51 %2B0900 (JST)") References: <87wskptbb2.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20080618.144751.42861091.hrs@allbsd.org>
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:47:51 +0900 (JST), Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> wro=
te:
> Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote
> in <87wskptbb2.fsf@kobe.laptop>:
>
> ke> I don't know if this is a FAQ, but I've been trying to find a way to
> ke> create readable Greek PDF output with jadetex, and I'm kind of stuck
> ke> there.
> ke>
> ke> The PDF file *is* created, but the Greek text is typeset with fonts t=
hat
> ke> look likeISO 8859-1, so the text is unreadable.
> ke>
> ke> Does anyone know how I can tweak jadetex to use a different charset?
> ke>
> ke> A pointer to jadetex docs would be sufficient, but a quick search at
> ke> Google didn't produce something that looks useful :-/
>
> Could you tell me what is needed for TeX to process Greek? I am not
> familiar with Greek but I think it is possible to adjust JadeTeX to
> Greek if TeX is working with Greek text. A sample .tex file in Greek
> and the typeset PDF would help.
XeLaTeX supports UTF-8 input of Greek text. With a proper fontset, that
includes Greek characters, one can type directly into a XeLaTeX document
text in Greek.
Unfortunately, we don't have TeXlive in the ports, so that can't be
used in the doc/ tree.
Out other option is the {babel} package, but there's a catch there too.
With the current teTeX ports, one can use the {babel} package like this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel} % Pull in both English and
% Greek language support.
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc} % Allow ISO 8859-7 input of
% Greek text.
\begin{document}
\section{=C5=E9=F3=E1=E3=F9=E3=DE}
=D3=DE=EC=E5=F1=E1 =E5=DF=E4=E1 =E3=E9=E1 =F0=F1=FE=F4=E7 =F6=EF=F1=DC =
=C5=EB=EB=E7=ED=E9=EA=FC =EA=E5=DF=EC=E5=ED=EF =E4=DF=F0=EB=E1 =E1=F0=FC
\selectlanguage{english} English text \selectlanguage{greek}
=F3=F4=EF \LaTeX{}.
\end{document}
Roughly translated to English, the text above would read:
\section{Introduction}
Today I saw, for the first time, Greek text side by side with
\selectlanguage{english} English text \selectlanguage{greek}
in \LaTeX{}.
The tricky part is that switching between languages for every English
term has to be done with a filter. Otherwise, we will end up with the
odd result of typesetting English text with Greek fonts.
A good way to start making changes to support Greek would be to:
* Make sure that jadetex adds the two preamble commands shown above:
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
* Find a way to 'filter' the text and replace non-command sequences of
English text with `\selectlanguage{english} ... \selectlanguage{greek}'.
We can probably keep the bloat to a semi-reasonable size by also making
jadetex define short-hand aliases in the document preamble, like:
\newcommand{GR}{\selectlanguage{greek}}
\newcommand{EN}{\selectlanguage{english}}
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