{"id":112,"date":"2011-03-13T23:40:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-03-16T21:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:25:38","slug":"greek-with-the-lgr-font-encoding-on-gentoo-the-grmn-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.npcglib.org\/~stathis\/blog\/2011\/03\/13\/greek-with-the-lgr-font-encoding-on-gentoo-the-grmn-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek with the LGR font encoding on Gentoo – The grmn error"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using the LGR encoding for writing greek in latex documents on gentoo presumably should be fairly straight forward, but it took me a bit of searching before I figured it out. I’m using app-text\/texlive<\/code>, but I have not had greek language support (duh!). The error I was getting looked like this:<\/p>\n

\nkpathsea: Running mktextfm grmn1095
\nmktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input grmn1095
\nThis is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7)<\/p>\n

kpathsea: Running mktexmf grmn1095<\/p>\n

! I can’t find file `grmn1095′.
\n<*> …ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input grmn1095<\/p>\n

Please type another input file name
\n! Emergency stop.
\n<*> …ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input grmn1095<\/p>\n

Transcript written on mfput.log.
\ngrep: grmn1095.log: No such file or directory
\nmktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input grmn1095′ failed to make grmn1095.tfm.
\nkpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.<\/p>\n

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `LGR\/ptm\/m\/n’ undefined
\n(Font) using `LGR\/cmr\/m\/n’ instead on input line 28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s not much help really if you don’t know what you’re looking for. The solution on Gentoo is quite simple; just recompile TeXLive with greek language support:<\/p>\n

\nUSE+=”linguas_el” emerge -Dva app-text\/texlive<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A useful page on the LGR encoding support and example tex files to test your installation can be found in the Greek with the LGR font encoding<\/a> webpage. To test, download lgrxenc.def<\/a> and lgrxenc-test.tex<\/a> and run latex lgrxenc-test && dvipdf lgrxenc-test<\/code>. If everything goes well, you should end up with a pdf file with the greek characters rendered properly. You can compare your file with lgrxenc-test.pdf<\/a>. Check the example test file for the latex commands you need in order to write using the LGR encoding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using the LGR encoding for writing greek in latex documents on gentoo presumably should be fairly straight forward, but it took me a bit of searching before I figured it out. I’m using app-text\/texlive, but I have not had greek language support (duh!). The error I was getting looked like this: kpathsea: Running mktextfm grmn1095 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[6,10],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n