On 2013-07-08, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > The knowledgeable egreg gives advice about what packages to load when > using Greek and a lot depends on how new the TeX distribution is:
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/122992/classic-thesis-lyx-language-problem > Currently, LyX outputs this in the preamble for Greek: > \documentclass[greek]{article} > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc} > \usepackage{babel} > Is that correct? This is the "save fallback" without ane new "bells and whistles". As LyX does not check the installed versions of Greek support files, it is (currently) the right thing to do. With a more recent TeX installation (containing the "lgrx" bundle), I recommend to manually change the input encoding: Document>Settings>Language>LaTeX encoding: Unicode (utf8) and insert in Document>Settings>LaTeX preamble \usepackage{textalpha} This way, Greek Unicode characters will also show up in PDF-strings (contents sidebar) and can be used independent of the language setting (nice for things like \beta-particles). Setting the correct language is still recommended for words and text parts, as this enables kerning between the letters and correct hyphenation. Günter
