Document Classes ⇒ Greek italics (poor quality)

[beoram]

I have a question about italics with the Babel Polutonikogreek/Teuber package. When I use plain greek or slshape greek, the letters look fine, but when I use italics the text appears degraded in quality. See image below:



This is the Latex code I'm using:

\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage{fullpage,natbib}
\usepackage{mathptmx}%times
\usepackage{tipa,wasysym,linguex,lscape}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,latin,english]{babel}
\usepackage{teubner}

\begin{document}
...which also appears to be the precursor of Greek
\fontencoding{LGR}\fontfamily{cmr}\selectfont
\foreignlanguage{greek}{\textit{\r{r}\'akos} {\r{r}\'akos} \slshape{\r{r}\'akos}}
\normalfont `rag, ragged garment, rents/wrinkles in face, strip of cloth' ...

\end{document}

Thanks for any suggestions/info.

[localghost]

You should activate Type 1 (EC) fonts by using fontenc and perhaps install cm-super.

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\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,latin,english]{babel}
\usepackage{fullpage,natbib}
\usepackage{mathptmx}            % Times font
\usepackage{tipa,wasysym,linguex,lscape}
\usepackage{teubner}

I assume that your resulting PDF file contains also Type 3 fonts. You can check that by taking a look at the properties of the document in your viewer.

You should think about setting up the page layout with geometry instead of fullpage.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[beoram]

Many thanks, Thorsten. I'll try that.

(What is the advantage of geometry over fullpage?)

[localghost]

[...] (What is the advantage of geometry over fullpage?)

It offers variable page settings instead of statics ones. Just refer to the documentation.

[beoram]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks.

I changed the package headers to:

\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,latin,english]{babel}
\usepackage{fullpage,natbib}
\usepackage{mathptmx} % Times font
\usepackage{tipa,wasysym,linguex,lscape}
\usepackage{teubner}

And I installed cm-super via the MikTeX installer (I don't know if I need to do any additional installation?)

But this didn't seem to change the quality of the Greek italics. (I checked the PDF, there were a number of Type 1 fonts, and one Type 3 font)

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Beoram,

look for a Type 1 Greek font. For instance if you've installed cm-lgc change

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\fontencoding{LGR}\fontfamily{cmr}\selectfont

into

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\fontfamily{fcm}\selectfont

There may be differences in encoding or characters, look out for changes.

Stefan

[beoram]

Thanks Thorsten and Stefan. I think I finally got it figured out. The default installation of the csgreek fonts is not the full installation (which needs to be done manually). Once that was done, the fonts come out beautifully.