EXTENSION FOR PHILOLOGICAL TYPESETTING Copyright 2001 Claudio Beccari The programs contained in this bundle can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License Distributed from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt; either version 1 of the License, or any later version. This bundle contains the following files teubner.txt this file teubner.dtx documented TeX file teubner.ins installation file teubner-doc.pdf documentation file gmtr.mf METAFONT file cbmetre.mf METAFONT file File teubner-doc.pdf is the documentation file that shows what can be done with this extension package and displays several examples. Since at the time of writing some font faces were not available in PostScript format, raster files (at 600 dpi) have been used. Raster fonts unfortunately do not display well on the screen; therefore I suggest to print the document by means of Acrobat Reader, GhostView/Ghostscript, or what else. The printed document is of excellent quality. In order to use this extension package with LaTeX you have to install it. Run teubner.ins through LaTeX; the generated file is teubner.sty and must be moved where TeX the program can find it. This depends very much on your particular implementation of the TeX system, but if your system copes with the standard TeX directory structure and with a multiplicity of different root directory structures, you probably have a localtexmf root, containing a tex directory which on turn contains a latex directory. Under the latter directory create a new directory, named, say, teubner, and move there teubner.sty. I suggest you to create a directory teubner in the doc directory of the localtexmf rooted structure and move there both teubner-doc.pdf and teubner.dvi that you get by running LaTeX directly on teubner.dtx. For what concerns the fonts, create a teubner directory under source, under fonts, under localtexmf, and move there files gmtr.mf and cbmetre. In this same directory create some new files, all containing the same single line: input cbgreek Name these different files as such gmtr0500.mf gmtr0600.mf gmtr0700.mf gmtr0800.mf gmtr0900.mf gmtr1000.mf gmtr1095.mf gmtr1200.mf gmtr1440.mf gmtr1728.mf gmtr2074.mf gmtr2488.mf In the texmf rooted directory structure there should be a file under fontname, named special.map; edit such file and add the line gmtr public teubner Possibly preceded by a comment line of the form @c Metric symbols font This last task is not really necessary, but it is useful, because the generated tfm and pixel files will be automatically deposited in the proper directories, with no confusion with other fonts. Another important step is to control that you have the latest CB Greek fonts; even if you got them installed with the TeX system installation program, may be they are not the latest version, compatible with this extension package. Control your cbgreek.txt file and at the end of the file there is its date; this date should be not earlier than 15th of February 2001. If the date is earlier than this, connect to CTAN and download the latest version of the CB Greek fonts. Deposit or unzip the file in the same folder where you already have your old CB fonts. If you do not have the CB fonts at all, download them from CTAN, together with the driver files, and deposit all these files under a freshly created directory cbgreek, under public, under source, under fonts, under localtexmf. Another question you might ask yourself: is my TeX system complete and up to date? The fact you installed a TeX system and you did not have the CB fonts may be an index that you still have the babel package locked at a version number earlier than 3.7. Nothing evil, but in this case you probably lack also the font definition files in order to have LaTeX work correctly with the CB Greek fonts; download the lgr????.fd font definition files from the same place of CTAN where you found the CB fonts, and move them in the same directory where you possibly have other lgr????.fd files that reference other fonts. You can easily control that the CB fonts are correctly referenced in the fd files - if all font names start with g followed by three letters and no digits; - if the generating function name is genb; - if the font specification is made through the \EC@family command. After all these steps are done, you are ready to use your teubner extensions; it will not be easy at the beginning, because there are hundreds of new commands. Be sure to have already throughly read the documentation file teubner-doc.pdf and that you have the hard copy close to you. Remember though that most commands are latin names or abbreviations that should be familiar to any philologist specialized in classical/ancient European languages, such as classical Greek, classical Latin, et cetera. This set of extension commands has been tested in several documents; nevertheless I prepared them as a hobby, in the hope of helping a philologist friend. I hope this package may be useful also to you, but I must disclaim any liability for any unwanted results you might get, including the worst possible things that my happen to anybody working with a computer. I will not write down any strong disclaimer sentence in capital letters, because it should be absolutely evident that I did something I consider useful, but is up to you to decide to use it and to face the consequences (... which nevertheless I hope they are what you expected). If you find this package of some utility and you find some errors and/or some glitches, please write me by e-mail (beccari@polito.it). If you'd like me to realize some other commands, please send me by e-mail your request together with a scanned image containing the visual result you'd like to obtain. I do not guarantee I'll be able to satisfy your request, but I'll give it a try. In any case don't ask things LaTeX can't do; and if you use LaTeX, you know which are its pros and cons. Happy philological LaTeXing! Claudio Beccari Dipartimento di Elettronica Politecnico di Torino, Italy Turin, 29th of July 2001