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Re: Help with Greek/English text processing in Unix

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From: Greg Lee
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 13:31
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From article <12423@reed.UUCP>, by jjake@reed.UUCP (Jacob Sisk):
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" Among other things, I study Ancient Greek, and have access to a number
" of machine readable texts. I would very much like to be able to
" incorporate greek text into, say, a paper without too much trouble.

How about writing a preprocessor using lex?  Settle on a convention
for marking Greek portions of text, for instance enclose them
in brackets, and have the preprocessor remove the marks
and translate the Greek portions with TeX markups as appropriate.

If you haven't used lex and this sounds like a good idea, if
you were to send me some sample text with information about
what TeX commands make the Greek look right, I could whip up
a prototype.

I think this approach would be much easier than trying to
do it directly with TeX or troff code.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
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Subject: Re: Help with Greek/English text processing in Unix
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Date: 15 Apr 89 13:31:02 GMT
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