CTAN update: Ibycus-Babel interface, version 3.0
Date: November 24, 2005 3:27:00 PM CET
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Walter Schmidt submitted an update to the
Ibycus-Babel
interface package.
Location on CTAN: fonts/greek/package-babel/ibycus-babel/
License: lppl
> This is version 3.0 of the Ibycus-Babel interface, a set of files
> to enable the use of Ibycus-encoded Greek fonts with Babel.
>
> What's new in version 3.0 ?
>
> * Alternative typefaces with Ibycus encoding are supported
> now, beside the original Ibycus fonts by P. MacKay.
> This affects primarily the future TeX adaption of the
> MinionPro fonts.
>
> * The hyphenation patterns (file ibyhyph.tex) were corrected
> to fix a bug regarding the use of "lunate sigmas".
>
> * The macro code includes a workaround for babel/3796.
>
> * The installation instructions (file install.txt) have been
> merged into the file README. (Please delete the existing
> install.txt from CTAN.)
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
ibycus-babel – Use the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel
The package allows you to use the Ibycus 4 font for ancient Greek with Babel. It uses a Perl script to generate hyphenation patterns for Ibycus from those for the ordinary Babel encoding, cbgreek. It sets up ibycus as a pseudo-language you can specify in the normal Babel manner. For proper hyphenation of Greek quoted in mid-paragraph, you should use it with elatex (all current distributions of LaTeX are built with e-TeX, so the constraint should not be onerous).
| Package | ibycus-babel |
| Version | 3.0 |
| Maintainer | Peter J. Heslin |