The simple way on modern Linux or MacOSX systems is to use
XeLaTeX and the fontenc
package.
texlive-xetex lmodern ttf-freefontThen your document preamble should look like this:
\documentclass[a4paper] {article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setromanfont{FreeSerif}The
\usepackage{fontspec}
line means that XeLaTeX will
honour the UTF-8 font encoding, and switch encodings appropriately.
fontspec
can be used to do lots more, see its manual for details.
\setromanfont{FreeSerif}
chooses a standard font for
the text. You'll need a font (such as the Gnu FreeSerif font)
that includes the glyphs for polytonic Greek.
Then in your text, you can freely intermingle Greek and English, thus:
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,\\ In [the] beginning was the word,\\
Build using xelatex
xelatex mydoc.texand the result will be put into
mydoc.pdf
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt] {article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setromanfont{FreeSerif} \usepackage{geometry} \begin{document} \section*{John 1:1} Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος,\\ In [the] beginning was the word,\\ \end{document}
Run through xelatex, and the result is: