polutonikogreek with lmodern 12pt

Question

Within a document in ngerman or english, I'd like to have some Greek text using babel's polutonikogreek. It seems there are two options for including greek text:

\textgreek{mikra'iti mouse~ion}

which seems good for single words and short passages, and for longer passages

\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek} mikra'iti mouse~ion

Using my standard setup (cf. below) including \documentclass[12pt]{article}, both options produce ugly pixelated output, technically speaking, it uses a Type 3 font, which doesn't happen for normal text:

This problem doesn't appear when using 10pt, in this case, a Type 1 font is used.

How do I get Type 1 fonts for polutonikogreek in 12Pt (and other sizes)? Here's my setup / a MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,english]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\begin{document}

\textgreek{mikra'iti mouse~ion}

\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek} mikra'iti mouse~ion

\end{document}

I use pdfTeX 1.40.11 by MiKTeX 2.9

Interestingly, this issue appears even in a manual for the greek option in babel, so it doesn't seem to be trivial. Then again, the manual is from 1997.

P.S.: You'll notice there's also an issue with the circumflex accent, but I thought I'd post this as a separate question once this one's solved.

Answer 1

The cheep method to solve this is to tell (pdf)latex to use grmn1000.pfb for all sizes:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage[polutonikogreek,english]{babel}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\DeclareFontFamily{LGR}{lmr}{}
\DeclareFontShape{LGR}{lmr}{m}{n}
  {<-> grmn1000}{}

\begin{document}

\textgreek{mikra'iti mouse~ion}

\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek} mikra'iti mouse~ion

\end{document}

You will need more \DeclareFontShape command for bold etc. Look in lgrlmr.fd for a list.

The other possibility is to install the full set of the cbfonts. As far as I know there is no miktex package so you will have to do it manually. Get cbfonts.zip from CTAN (~70MB!), unzip it somewhere outside the miktex folders. You will get a folder

cbfonts/fonts/map
             /type1
             /....  
       /tex

In cbfonts/fonts/map there is a cbgreek-full.map. Move it to cbfonts/fonts/map/dvips (miktex seems to ignore maps directly in fonts/map).

Then add the root folder cbfonts as a new root in miktex settings as in admin mode (for all users) or user mode (only for you). Call on the command line initexmf --admin --edit-config-file updmap (admin mode) or initexmf --edit-config-file updmap (user mode) which will open a updmap.cfg. Add Map cbgreek-full.map, save it. Then run updmap --admin or updmap. After this your example should use grmn1200.pfb for the 12pt greek.

Answer 2

I can’t see any problems with your MWE. My Setup ist MacTeX (~ TeX Live 2010) width pdflatex 3.1415926-1.40.11 maybe you need to update your system?!

My file list

get it with \listfiles before the \documentclass command

*File List*
article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
size12.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
babel.sty 2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
greek.ldf 2005/03/30 v1.3l Greek support from the babel system
lgrenc.def 2008/06/17 v2.3 Greek Encoding
english.ldf 2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
fontenc.sty
t1enc.def 2005/09/27 v1.99g Standard LaTeX file
lmodern.sty 2009/10/30 v1.6 Latin Modern Fonts
lgrcmr.fd 2008/06/17 v2.3 Greek Computer Modern
t1lmr.fd 2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
lgrlmr.fd 2008/06/17 v2.3 Greek Latin Modern

Answer 3

It seems that some fonts are not installed properly. It is not very easy to examine the problem, and I don't use MiKTeX (but TeX Live).

Anyway, search your MiKTeX directory for these files.

These should exist, since you compiled the document without errors:

• lgrlmr.fd at ???/tex/generic/babel/
• grmn1200.tfm at ???/fonts/tfm/public/cbfonts/

And this may be absent:

• grmn1200.pfb at ???/fonts/type1/public/cbfonts/ (Type1 font for Greek Latin Modern 12pt)

If the .pfb file does not exist or at a wrong position, you should reinstall cbfonts package using MiKTeX's Package Manager, or install it manally.

If the file is OK, this may be wrong:

• pdftex.map at ???/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/ with a line:

  grmn1200 grmn1200 <grmn1200.pfb
  

You may need to edit the updmap.cfg and run updmap utility to make the fonts valid.

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From your comment and packages in CTAN/systems/win32/miktex/, it seems that MiKTeX has no full latest cb fonts for greek, but only the fonts for 10pt.

You'd better write a letter to MiKTeX mailing list to report the problem and ask for update.

And if you want to use the fonts now, you must install the full fonts manually from CTAN. It isn't easy for newbies, indeed.

You can get all fonts at:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/greek/cbfonts-all

1. Extract all the files and copy them to the MiKTeX's TDS root directory.

2. Run updmap following Ulrike Fischer's advice. The key is to add cbgreek-full.map and make it active.

3. Use it.