My question is essentially the same as that found here. I would like to be able to typeset a handful of Greek words.
Here's a MWE:
\documentclass{book}
%\usepackage[LGR,T1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}
\newcommand{\textgreek}[1]{\begingroup\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont#1\endgroup}
%\usepackage{textcomp}
\newcommand{\theos}{\ensuremath{\theta\epsilon\acute o\sigma}\ }
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}
\item Latin version (not what I want): theos
\item Math version (in italics, but otherwise fine): \theos.
\item Solution from @egreg (does not work for me): \textgreek{θεός}
\end{itemize}
\end{document}
Depending which packages I uncomment, I get different errors.
- Everything uncommented:
- LaTeX Error: File `LGR.def' not found.
- LaTeX Error: File `LGRx.def' not found. (if I change it to LGRx)
- Without LGR and textcomp:
- Package babel Error: Unknown option `greek'.
- LaTeX Error: Encoding scheme `LGR' unknown.
- Package inputenc Error: Unicode char θ (U+3B8)(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX (and similar for other characters)
- Without LGR, babel, and textcomp
- LaTeX Error: Encoding scheme 'LGR' unknown.
- Package inputenc Error: Unicode char θ (U+3B8)(inputenc) not set up for use with LaTeX (and similar for other characters)
- Without the \textgreek newcommand, and textcomp
- File `LGR.def' not found.
You get the idea. I can copy the utf8 greek letters into the .tex, but can't get them into my pdf. I'm running PDFLaTeX on Texmaker on Ubuntu.
Follow-up to comments.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}
\begin{document} \textgreek{θεός}
\end{document}
Returns error: Package babel Error: Unknown option `greek'.
If I run the same with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX, it ignores the inputenc, says that \textgreek is undefined, has the same babel error, and does not output the greek letters.
How would I make LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX work with greek? I've not come across them before, but see that they are an option in Texmaker.
\documentclass{book} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[greek,english]{babel} \begin{document} \textgreek{θεός} \end{document}
work?θεός
with a Greek keyboard driver and compile withxelatex
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