[texhax] GFS Porson polytonic keymap?

[Erik Norvelle]

BTW, I'm not using GFS Porson, but rather the TrueType version of  
Porson, which includes the Greek characters in their appropriate  
ranges (0370–03FF for monotonic Greek and Coptic, 0300–036F for  
polytonic).

-Erik

On May 5, 2009, at 1:37 PM, Erik Norvelle wrote:

> Greetings Peter,
>
> I type in polytonic Greek by using the GreekKeys Unicode keymapping  
> for OS X.  GreekKeys is available here: http://apagreekkeys.org/AboutGKU.html 
>  ... I believe that the 2008 version also is available for Windows.
>
> My .tex files, therefore, are in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding.  I use  
> the XeLaTeX engine for typesetting, in order to take advantage of  
> the LaTeX extensions, but the plain-vanilla XeTeX (available at http://www.tug.org/xetex/ 
>  , for OS X and with a port to Windows) should provide you with a  
> way to directly process UTF-8 encoded TeX files.
>
> As a result, my .tex files include Unicode polytonic Greek  
> characters directly, which I type in using the GreekKeys keyboard  
> configuration; Porson gets used as the output font, which I select  
> using the Fontspec package (available only under XeTeX, alas).
>
> I've attached a sample .tex file and the corresponding PDF output,  
> so you can see how I set things up.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik Norvelle
> <motion.pdf><motion.tex>
>
> On May 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Peter King wrote:
>
>> I just installed GFS Porson, which is a lovely Greek typeface, but  
>> the docs
>> don't seem to say how to type in the accents/diacriticals/etc.   
>> Does anyone
>> know where I can find out? No information about this on the GFS  
>> website either,
>> as far as I can tell.
>>
>> I use plain TeX, so LaTeX package recommendations won't help.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> -- 
>> Peter King			 	peter.king at utoronto.ca
>> Department of Philosophy
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>>
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