README

This is a project for tools that help you write Latin more easily.

For a summary of why this exists, check out the wiki page:
http://wiki.github.com/sgharms/latintools

Or, watch a video of how this can be used at:
http://blip.tv/file/1745072/

Tools fall into these varieties:

  + LaTeX_tools
    -  LaTeX styles that help with the annotation of verse

    \latblock
    {
     \={\macron A}rm\-a v\-ir\=umqu\-e c\-an{\={\macron o}}, $||$ 
     Tr\={o}j\={\ae} qu\={\macron{\i}} pr\={\macron{\i}}m\-us \-ab
     \={o}r\={\macron{\i}}s
    } 
    {I sing of arms and the man, who came from the borders of Troy }
    Dependencies:

    Documents will need the following packages:

      \usepackage{setspace}
      \usepackage{ulem}
      \usepackage{framed}
      \usepackage[en]{metre}

  + Textmate_tools
     - Latin Student.tmbundle
       A Textmate bundle that is used to speed up typing of Latin text.

       1.  In a LaTeX file, entering control+[aeiou] or [AEIOU] will result in
	   a LaTeX macron glyph (e.g. \={a}).  This allows you to touch-type
	   text in without fear
       2.  Contains the "Dactylize" method which takes glyphs with macrons, and
	   then, above them, suspends another long mark automatically.  When
	   doing scansion, this will allow your long vowels to have a macron AND
	   for you to have another long mark 2 units above so that, when
           combined with short marks, you can have a full, beautifully typeset 
	   scansion line.
  + Shell_tools
    - latex2latin a tools that changes LaTeX macron characters into 
      Unicode / UTF8 / HTML entities characters with macrons



AUTHOR: Steven G. Harms (http://www.stevengharms.com)