GRLATEX(7 Dec 1992)

NAME
grlatex - tex formatting and typesetting (greek option)

SYNOPSIS
grlatex [options] [filename]

DESCRIPTION
grlatex is part of the GreekTeX package for typesetting greek texts under the TeX typesetting system. grlatex is an extension of the LaTeX macro package for the TeX mathematical typesetting package. The extension consists of a new set of language dependent macros, a set of hyphenation patterns for the greek language, and a set of macro development tools for the greek languge.

grlatex can be used instead of the latex package to typeset any source file written for the LaTeX macro package. In addition a special greek environment is defined inside which latin characters correspond to greek ones according to the scheme

a b g d e z h j i k l m n x o p r s t u f q y w and c (final s)

In order to get accents and breathing use ',`,~,>,< before any vowel. For those typesetting ancient greek texts iota subscript can be generated by placing the character | after the vowel to recive the subscript.

The greek environment is created by the command

    \begin{greektext}

and ends by

    \end{greektext}.

Inside the greek environment the font families available are:

    \gr	Classic Greek

    \grbf	Boldface Greek

    \grsl	Slanted Greek

    \grit	Greek Italics

    \grtt	Typewritter Greek

Note that all the font scaling commands will affect the greek characters as well. Nevertheless if the font size is changed inside the environment, the effects are only local.

STYLE FILES
Special style files exist for writting texts in greek language. The names of the style files are derived from the latex ones by preciding them with the suffix `gr' (e.g. grarticle.sty) Any such style causes latex to enter a permenent greek environment. The original latin (global) environment is locally available through the commands \begin and \end {latin}. Note that the roman font families are normally accesed in the standard way e.g. {\rm Latin Word}. Beware the difference in certain symbols; all the accentuation symbols are concidered as letters (catcode 11).

MACRO DEVELOPMENT
If you are interested in creating macros while in greek mode try to remember that certain symbols need to be replaced by more general control sequences:

    $ ---> \ m@thm@de

    > ---> \ gt (greater than)

    < ---> \ lt (less than)

SEE ALSO
tex(1), latex(1), greektex(1).

FILES
For more information on macro development under the package see the extensive discussion in the comments of the macro files: lgreek.tex, grfonts.tex, greek.sty, gr*.sty

AUTHOR
    The GREEKTeX package was developed partly from ideas of Sylvio Levy and Haralambous by K J Dryllerakis (kd@doc.ic.ac.uk)