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From: jjake@reed.UUCP (Jacob Sisk)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Help with Greek/English text processing in Unix
Message-ID: <12423@reed.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 07:36:52 GMT
Reply-To: jjake@reed.UUCP (Jacob Sisk)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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I have a question which I will throw up to any one who can answer it.

Among other things, I study Ancient Greek, and have access to a number
of machine readable texts. I would very much like to be able to
incorporate greek text into, say, a paper without too much trouble. The
text itself is stored as plain old text, with a number of odd characters
for letters that the Roman alphabet does not have. These would be
easy to map to whatever they need to.         

I have tried using Troff and inquired about TeX, but nobody seems to
know an easy fix to switch from Roman to Greek fonts. The problem
is further complicated by a system of diacritic marks (invented by
2nd century monks to retain the accent and sound of Classical Greek),
and these are a real sticking point, or so says my math prof who
uses TeX quite extensively. 

Does any one have some idea as to how I can do this using current
Unix type-setting tools? My thanks would be endless to the person
who can help me.

ps: Sorry if this article happens twice; I am still getting the
hang of 'Pnews'. 
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Jacob Sisk				jjake@reed.BITNET
Box 798
REED COLLEGE
Portland, Or. 97202