Beamer – How to Use Greek Letters in a Presentation

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I would like to include the following line from Wikipedia in a presentation:

στεγανός steganós ‚bedeckt‘ und γράφειν gráphein ‚schreiben‘

But I am unable to convince pdflatex to include the greek letters. I have already tried to use (from: Greek in LaTeX)

\usepackage[german,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
\latintext
...
\textgreek{στεγανός} steganós ‚bedeckt‘

which printed the Latin text just fine, but the Greek text was not set at all. I would like to avoid using

$\sigma\tau\epsilon...$

if possible. I should also mention that I would like to achieve this with TeX Live-only packages.

Best Answer

Use

\usepackage{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek,german]{babel}

If German is your main language, it should be specified last, avoiding the need to say \latintext. The main font family should have support for the Greek alphabet; without a minimal example it's hard to tell if it's the case.

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greek – How to Typeset Greek Letters in LaTeX

If you just need a few words, then a simple approach can solve your problem:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\newcommand{\textgreek}[1]{\begingroup\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont#1\endgroup}
\begin{document}
physics (from ancient greek \textgreek{f'usis})
\end{document}

For longer passages, perhaps loading the polutoniko option with babel may be recommended. Check in the documentation of babel for the translitteration scheme used.

You may also choose different fonts for Greek (the GFS fonts support many of them).

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Update

With recent and uptodate TeX distributions, one can also input directly the Greek characters:

% -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}   % utf8 is required

\newcommand{\textgreek}[1]{\begingroup\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont#1\endgroup}

\begin{document}
physics (from ancient greek \textgreek{φύσις})
\end{document}

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