Typesetting Coptic Liturgy in Bohairic
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This paper describes what the authors have done in order to typeset some Coptic texts with LATEX mainly in the Bohairic variant used in liturgy. This implied the creation of suitable fonts, the macros for typesetting special liturgical symbols, the hyphenation patterns necessary to typeset with the Coptic alphabet and the rules used by the Bohairic variant.
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