grchyph.tex Unicode hyphenation patterns for ancient Greek. Created: January 9th, 2006 First release: June 7th, 2006 Revised: (not yet) Version: 0.1 Created by Yves Codet with Jonathan Kew's help, after Claudio Beccari's "grhyph.tex". This package can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License. These patterns are meant for XeTeX, a Unicode variant of TeX. They are merely phonetic and *do not* take etymology into consideration. After being compiled into a format, they can be activated with the command: \language=\greek In LaTeX, if your document is entirely in Greek, you can write the command in your preamble, for instance: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} \usepackage{fontspec} \setromanfont{Lucida Grande} \language=\greek \begin{document} Ἐν Λέσβῳ θηρῶν ἐν ἄλσει Νυμφῶν θέαμα εἶδον κάλλιστον ὧν εἶδον· εἰκόνα γραπτήν, ἱστορίαν ἔρωτος. \end{document} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If there is another language in your source file, you can define a new font instance and a new command, for instance: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage[frenchb]{babel} \setromanfont{Lucida Grande} % font % "Lucida Grande" with French hyphenation called by "Babel" \newfontinstance\greekfont{Lucida Grande} \newcommand{\gr}[1]{{\language=\greek\greekfont{#1}}} % the same % font with Greek hyphenation called by the command % "\language=\greek" \begin{document} \gr{Ἐν Λέσβῳ θηρῶν ἐν ἄλσει Νυμφῶν θέαμα εἶδον κάλλιστον ὧν εἶδον· εἰκόνα γραπτήν, ἱστορίαν ἔρωτος.} Alors que je chassais à Lesbos dans un bois consacré aux Nymphes, je vis le plus beau spectacle que j'aie jamais vu: une image peinte, une histoire d'amour. \end{document} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I never use plainTeX, so I don't know how to do the same with it. If a plainTeX user is willing to send me the equivalents of the above, I'll be grateful. Please send corrections and suggestions to: ycodet@club-internet.fr These hyphenation patterns are under the LaTeX Project Public License.