Complete Greek with Adjunct Fonts

Introduction. The project started with an innocuous attempt by one of the authors (it is obvious who) to learn TjjX for translating a Greek book on Mechanics, only to find that lacked the bold upright Greek lowercase letters used for symbolizing vectors such as o and @ for angular velocity vectors. After some trials with variations of "poor man's bold" ( T h e T&Xbook, p.386) it became clear that the only hope of getting good characters was to produce them with METAFONT. The beautiful pictures of Computer Modern Typefaces whetted the desire for complete fonts for writing Greek, especially as W ' s Greek mathematical symbols were not intended for writing Greek text ( T h e m b o o k , p.430), and furthermore, they have to be entered with lengthy commands. At that time the ever helpful Barbara Beeton brought to our attention the excellent, original and efficacious Greek system and fonts of Professor Silvio Levy [I], which he graciously offered us. That is when the collaboration of the two authors started, the one ever entangled in problems resolved by the other. At &st all efforts were concentrated on the design of the Greek characters. The problem of limited font capacity was postponed till the end. In this report, however, it seemed more useful to start with the requirements for a Greek font, which we then set to meet. Accordingly the following paragraphs describe the characters required in a complete Greek font and the constraints imposed by TEX; the chosen system for accommodating all requirements and the development of the method of adjunct fonts; the commands for typesetting Greek; the design of a new family of Greek fonts; and the use of Greek monitor characters.