you don't need to use XeLaTeX
with biblatex
, it works with pdflatex
too. You sample compiles fine for me with pdflatex
, utf8
option of fontenc
, biblatex
and biber
for unicode bibliography support, and fontenc
package with T1
and LGR
options for font support (although it seems it works even without fontenc
):
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{testbib.bib}
@article{Mayer,
title = "The 11B(p,a)8Be nuclear reaction and 11B(p,p)11B backscattering cross sections for analytical purposes ",
journal = "Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ",
volume = "143",
number = "3",
pages = "244 - 252",
year = "1998",
note = "",
issn = "0168-583X",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0168-583X(98)00383-8",
url = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168583X98003838",
author = "M. Mayer and A. Annen and W. Jacob and S. Grigull",
language ="English",
hyphenation="english"
}
@Mastersthesis{Vpaneta,
author = "Συγγραφέας",
title = "Τίτλος",
year = "2012",
month = "μήνας",
school = "Κατι",
language ="Greek",
hyphenation="greek"
}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{book}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[T1,LGR]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}
\usepackage[bibencoding=auto,backend=biber,babel=other]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{testbib.bib}
\newcommand{\sw}{\selectlanguage{english}}
\newcommand{\sq}{\selectlanguage{greek}}
\newcommand{\eng}[1]{\latintext#1\greektext}
\newcommand{\gre}[1]{\greektext#1\latintext}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{Κεφάλαιο}
\section{Ενότητα}
σδφγηξκλ\cite{Mayer}hgfkhgjfkhgfkhg\cite{Vpaneta}
\section{Ενότητα}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Βιβλιογραφία}
% \bibliographystyle{plain}
\selectlanguage{english}
%\bibliography{testbib}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
compile it with
pdflatex filename.tex
biber filename
pdflatex filename.tex
and of course, file filename.tex
must be in utf8
encoding
Best Answer
The
lipsum
package uses\roman{lips@count}
to build a control sequence name; but the Greek module forbabel
changes the meaning of\roman
making it not fully expandable.Solution: patch the relevant command:
I've omitted the call to
inputenc
that's not relevant for the example. You should consider switching to UTF-8 rather than using ISO-8859-7.