INSTALLATION PROCEDURE FOR GREEKTEX PACKAGE

This documents gives a brief description of the installation procedure of the GreekTEX Package. It is assumed that TEX version 3.0 or higher is installed in your system and you also have access to Metafont (v 2.00 or higher). Most of the systems are also equiped with a scirpt, or batch file or even a small program that will create a font at a given magnification with a single command. Let us assume that this command is newfont < F ontName > scaled < Magnfification >. You must also have access to plain.tex and hyphen.tex (plain format version 3.00) or higher, as well as to INITEX for building formats. If you are interested in building the grlatex format as well, the the files for building lplain must also be available.

Installing the Fonts Here is a table of the fonts and suggested magnifications:

750  800  900  1000  1200  1440  1795

       kdgr10  *  *  *  *
       kdgr9  *  *  *  *
       kdgr8  *  *  *  *  *
       kdbf10  *  *  *  *
       kdbf9  *  *  *  *
       kdbf8  *  *  *  *  *
       kdsl10  *  *  *  *  *  *
       kdti10  *  *  *  *  *  *
       kdtt10  *  *  *  *  *  *

Each font is installed by a command of the form

newfont kdgr10 scaled 1200

After installing all the fonts you are ready to move to the installation of the greek format.

Format Installation Make sure that the file plain.tex and hyphen.tex are in your path and enter the command:

INITEX greek

When INITEX has finished enter \ dump. Hopefully the file greek.fmt must be ready to use. Just place it in your TEX path and issue the command

tex & greek foo.tex

to run GREEKTEX. You can also place the file greektex.tex in you TEXINPUT path so that it can be included in short greek documents or replace the greek format file if the latter does not exist in your system. Note that the hyphenation will only work under the greek format and not when you include the greektex file to your document. Hyphenation apart, no other differences exist between the greek format and greektex.tex. If you are building the latex extension grlatex, issue the command:

INITEX lgreek

This will built the lgreek format. The lgreek format can be used instead of the standard latex format since it is simply and extension of the latex package enriched with several language dependant macros and the hyphenation patterns for greek tex. If during the procedure of creating the greek latex INITEX complains about too many font families then the lplain format must be modified to define only 10 font families (older version of lfonts.tex defined the uit family of fonts which you might be able to eliminate without mamy losses).