Document Classes ⇒ babel and times incompatibility

[beoram]

Are the packages "babel" and "times" inherently incompatible? I had problems using the "babel" package, but turning off "times" seemed to fix it. But is there any way to use the two package together?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi beoram,

the times package is obsolete and is replaced by mathptmx, try this instead.

Stefan

[beoram]

Thanks Stefan, I didn't know the times package was obsolete. But the mathptmx seems to produce the same incompatibility with babel.

E.g.:

\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,english]{babel}
\usepackage[or]{teubner}
\begin{document}
This is Greek: \textgreek{\as sk\wci{} \es n \as ige\ia w---ko\ua rh d'' \es peb\ha set'' \as p\ha nhc}
\end{document}

doesn't work.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi beoram,

it seems there's no greek encoding available with the times font. Try this example, selecting cmr with LGR encoding:

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\documentclass{article}[12pt]
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,english]{babel}
\usepackage[or]{teubner}
\begin{document}
This is Greek:
\fontencoding{LGR}\fontfamily{cmr}\selectfont
\textgreek{\as sk\wci{} \es n \as ige\ia w---ko\ua rh d'' \es peb\ha set'' \as p\ha nhc}
\normalfont
This was Greek.
\end{document}

Stefan

[beoram]

Many thanks Stefan.

That seems to work.