Re: Ancient Greek in output PDF

[John Muccigrosso <jmuccigr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 12:35:08 PM UTC-5, ousia wrote:
>
> On 01/19/2017 05:08 PM, John Muccigrosso wrote: 
> > I was helping a friend use pandoc to go from markdown to PDF on a Mac. 
> > His problem was that the default PDF output couldn't handle the Greek 
> > characters. 
> > [...] 
> > I'm concluding that the default PDF output font (Latin Modern Roman?) 
> > doesn't have these characters, whereas Baskerville (among others) does. 
>
> Sorry for my delayed reply, John. 
>
> The Latin Modern typeface only contains Latin glyphs. 
>
> > Is this right? Is there another way to solve this within the default 
> setup? 
>
> https://cm-unicode.sf.net contains Computer Modern fonts in OpenType 
> format. The following should work: 
>
>     \setmainfont{CMU Serif} 
>
> Even defining a fallaback font for Greek characters should be easy with 
> fontspec. But I haven’t used LaTeX for years and I don’t remember how to 
> do it. 
>
 
Thanks. I found them here: http://cm-unicode.sourceforge.net 

It looks like the CMU Serif is (nearly) identical to Latin Modern Roman.

I have a default.latex that sets my own fonts, but I think I'll modify it 
to be sensitive to main font being set in the YAML.


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