[texhax] greek symbols and accents

[Robin Fairbairns]

> How do you put accents (' and ~) on greek letters? Is this only possible with 
> \usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
> \textgreek{XXX} where XXX is the text you want in Greek and accents
> are placed in front of the vocals?

have you access to an utf-8 input method?

the standard latex \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} support doesn't deal
with greek; however, utf8x from the unicode package does (i think it
assumes the LGR encoding of the fonts, but the documentation explains
what it's doing).

(be sure to get an up-to-date version of the unicode package).