greek characters

greek characters

[Jörg Hagmann]

Dear list members,

I have been using emacs for a few months but am still trying to find 
out how to type greek letters (e.g.: a-ketoglutarate, the a should be 
an alpha).

I looked at the online manuals, but I don't understand what is written 
there.
I checked the archives, but simple things like this are probably not 
discussed there.
I bought "Learning GNU Emacs" from O'Reilly, but they only explain 
obvious things that one could find out without the book.
I tried changing "Options" but I have no idea where to begin and 
nothing I tried worked.

Could somebody explain in SIMPLE words what to do? There is a deadline 
for handing in a TeX/ConTeXt document ...

I'm running GNU emacs version 21 on Mac OS X, international keyboard, 
english language; and on GNU/Linux with a British keyboard.

I managed to get the accents (aigu, grave, umlauts etc.) by C-x C-m C-\ 
latin-1-prefix. The characters are displayed as empty boxes, but I can 
live with that for the moment. (C-h h displays mostly empty boxes).

Thank you for your help, Jörg

Re: greek characters

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch> writes:

Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch> writes:

> Dear list members,
>
> I have been using emacs for a few months but am still trying to find
> out how to type greek letters (e.g.: a-ketoglutarate, the a should be
> an alpha).

(set-input-method 'greek)

You can bind it to a function key, for example I have:

(global-set-key [C-f10] (lambda()(interactive)(set-input-method 'cyrillic-yawerty)))
(global-set-key [C-f11] (lambda()(interactive)(set-input-method 'greek)))
(global-set-key [C-f12] (lambda()(interactive)(set-input-method 'hebrew)))

in my ~/.emacs.  Then I'd type:

   C-f11 a C-\ -ketoglutarate 

to get:

   α-ketoglutarate

C-f11 χριστòς C-\





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Greek characters

[Hugh Mayfield]

Hi everyone,

I want to find out how to produce a Greek beta with a circumflex.  I got
as far as trying the TeX input-mode, but I can only produce a plain
beta, no circumflex.  Can anyone help, please?  Is there a method other
than TeX?

This is for my partner who is doing something statistical.

Regards

Hugh

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Re: Greek characters

[Alexis]

Hugh Mayfield writes:

> I want to find out how to produce a Greek beta with a circumflex.  I got
> as far as trying the TeX input-mode, but I can only produce a plain
> beta, no circumflex.  Can anyone help, please?  Is there a method other
> than TeX?

C-x 8 RET greek small letter beta C-x 8 RET combining circumflex accent

or equivalently

C-x 8 RET 3b2 C-x 8 RET 302

(Tab completion is available when entering the Unicode character names,
of course.)


Alexis.