This directory contains files that help installing an ancient Greek font in TeX-GPC. The font includes a full set of diacritical marks, the preclassic letters digamma, quoppa and sampi, and the lunatic variant of sigma. The font was originally cut by Firmin Didot(*1764, +1836), put into METAFONT files by Silvio Levy in 1987 and improved by Pierre A. MacKay, the author of Ibycus4. Here I used version 4.5 as of 2004-10-27. Preparation: ------------ Get the packages ibygrk and levy from CTAN:fonts/greek and copy files from levy and ibygrk directories into this directory, with the shellscripts getlevy and getiby. Link METAFONT's and TeX's master directories to this directory, so you can run mf and tex from here. Make sure MFinputs contains Knuth's computer modern fonts. Installation: ------------- Run ibyfonts to build and install the .tfm and .pk fonts. Run ibymacros to install macro files into TeXinputs. Usage: ------ From your .tex file \input agr and enclose Greek between \GK and \RM. Typing Greek characters ----------------------- You don't need a monster keyboard or even the ALT-key to enter Greek text into your TeX---ASCII suffices. The ASCII representation used here follows the Beta Code from the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html) Greek Letters: Since the Latin alphabet emerged from the Greek one, you enter most Greek letters as their corresponding ASCII character. But there are some exceptions: Greek ASCII eta h theta q ksi c ypsilon u phi f chi x psi y omega w digamma v koppa k+ sampi s+ (lowercase only) lunatic sigma c Diacritics: rough breathing: ( smooth breathing: ) diaeresis: + acute: ' grave: ` circumflex: = iota subscript: | dubious(dot under): ! Order of diacritics with lowercase letters: letter, diaeresis, breathing, accent, iota subscript. E.g. u"(=| A diaeresis (+) won't work together with a circumflex. Order of diacritics with uppercase letters: breathing, accent, letter, iota subscript (=W| A breathing is mandatory before an accent. Punctuation Period . Apostroph ' (if after a vowel, use a{}', not a') Colon : Question Mark ; guillemets << >> Look at test.tex and sappho.tex for examples. Installing the Type 1 fonts in teTeX3.0: ---------------------------------------- List the search directory with `kpsewhich -show-path=.pfb' I selected ~/texmf from that list. From the ibygrk/fonts directory do: mkdir ~/texmf/fonts cp -rp * ~/texmf/fonts texhash Finally I added the command line option `-u +iby' to dvips in the dvipdf script. Aug. 2008 Wolfgang Helbig