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[Dimitris Tsagkatakis <address@hidden>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:

> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone know how can I write Greek monotononic/polytonic in TeXmacs?
> > Maybe there are some fonts I can download?
> >    
>
> Please take a look at CTAN; you should find what you need there and
> we do support these fonts in TeXmacs.
Thanks for answering.

I'm currently reading some piece of documentation about TeX generally, 
how this typesetting system works, about CTAN, metafont etc. I 
downloaded some greek fonts and I'll try to install them

> It would be nice if you could contact the maintainer of teTeX
> (Thomas Esser) in order to suggest him to include these fonts
> in the standard distribution. This is also important in order to
> have upright Greek characters which are often preferred by physicists.
Good idea and easy thing to do.
I don't know if Thomas Esser will take seriously my suggestion, maybe he 
will. But it would also be a very nice idea for the TeXmacs team to 
include greek fonts in their additional-fonts-package.

> If you want us to add support for the Greek language inside TeXmacs
> (more than only the fonts), then please let us know; in that case,
> we would need translations of all menu items (a few days work).
>  
The basic need right now is to manage to read and write Greek monotonic 
(Modern Greek) and polytonic (Ancient Greek). A Greek TeXmacs enviroment 
though, would surely make TeXmacs more popular in my country, Greece.

If TeXmacs acquires the greek reading/typing ability and a greek 
translated menu, I'd be personally willing to notify this to some 
relative greek mailing lists. There is a noteworthy number of greek unix 
users who would appreciate such a program, especially students and 
professors of our Univerisities.

my regards

Dimitris T.

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Department of Paidagogy of the
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens - Greece

Dimitris Tsagkatakis
address@hidden