Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Polutonikogreek space adding problem

[Yeats]

Hi,
I am writing my dissertation with LaTeX and using some greek passage from time to time. I am using babel package for it:

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\usepackage[polutonikogreek,ngerman]{babel}

To make things easier i defined this command:

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\newcommand{\grk}[1]{\selectlanguage{polutonikogreek}#1\selectlanguage{ngerman}}

Now my problem is this: When i compile PDF file after each greek word that I use in text i get some space that should not be there.

Here is an example:

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Was aber den Begriff der „Cena pura“ (\grk{kuriak`on de~ipnon}) angeht, bei Paulus zum Beispiel in 1 Kor. 11,20 bezeichnet er ein regelrechtes Mahl mit Sättigungscharakter.

That produces:



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I tried putting brackets inside \grk as this:

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Was aber den Begriff der „Cena pura“ \grk(kuriak`on de~ipnon)} angeht, bei Paulus zum Beispiel in 1 Kor. 11,20 bezeichnet er ein regelrechtes Mahl mit Sättigungscharakter.

That produces:



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Even if I put word that comes next after greek word together with the bracket like this:

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Was aber den Begriff der „Cena pura“ \grk{(kuriak`on de~ipnon)}angeht, bei Paulus zum Beispiel in 1 Kor. 11,20 bezeichnet er ein regelrechtes Mahl mit Sättigungscharakter.

There is still more empty space after greek word than it should be:


Anyone has any idea what am I doing wrong? Or is it babel package maybe?

[localghost]

I'm not sure if this will help. But you may use another definition of your new command.

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\newcommand{\grk}[1]{\foreignlanguage{polutonikogreek}{#1}}

This is made especially for short text pieces. The babel manual gives more details.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Yeats]

I'm not sure if this will help. But you may use another definition of your new command.

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\newcommand{\grk}[1]{\foreignlanguage{polutonikogreek}{#1}}

This is made especially for short text pieces. The babel manual gives more details.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

This actually did helped. Thank you very much ThoRsteN