TexLive 2008 + GreekTex + Export to HTML and OpenOffice
This is an update of this guide to use greektex in TexLive 2008. Xetex is preisntalled and ready to use.
Some steps may be unnecessary or duplicated but it worked for me.Of course it needs improvements so please do not Shoot!
A: TexLive 2008
1: Download the install script here (http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texli...-tl-unx.tar.gz)
2:extract it and open it in terminal
3:
Code:
sudo aptitude install perl-tk
to use the gui installation
4: make the /usr/local dir writeable for normal user (gksudo nautilus, right click, permissions)
5.in terminal and choose what you want to install (choose the greek language pack for greektex and xetex)
in the .profile file located in home folder add these lines
PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH
MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH
INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH
logout and log in again
B: GreekTex
6. In your home folder locate ~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts and create a dir called source and inside that a dir called public
the path now would be ~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/source/public
7. locate the ywcl zip file (fonts) i found it in /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greektex/ywcl.zip and extract it in ~/.texlive2008/texmf-var/fonts/source/public (created above)
8. copy the gehyphw.gr file form /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/doc/latex/greektex/ to
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen
9. copy the greektex.sty from /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/latex/greektex/greektex.sty to
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/latex/greektex
10. locate the language.dat
Code:
locate language.dat
files and edit them using gedit or leafpad etc. i have edited two of them
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat and
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.dat
and replaced the line english hyphen.tex with english hyphen.tex gehyphw.gr
11. locate the ls-R files, i found these four
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/ls-R
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/ls-R
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-doc/ls-R
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/ls-R
and make them writeable for normal user
12. in terminal , press load then the configure tab and refresh everything
then try a doc in texmaker and see if it works. (Configure Texmaker as described here)
C: Export to html and OpenOffice
latex2rtf is excellent for non-greek files. For Greek files i have used
tth from http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth
the instructions are easy. Copy the tth file to /usr/bin and in terminal (where the .tex file is located) type Open the html file in Firefox, change encoding to iso-8859-7 and save the file. Then open it in openoffice, export
it as .odt and voila! share with non-latex users.
To display bibliography correctly DO not use natbib or hyperref packages in the .tex file.
Hope you find it Helpful!
Thanx!
