Help needed from Greek Linux users!

[Jan Willemson]

Hello!

My name is Jan Willemson, I am a Linux user form Estonia and I have the
following problem. I hope you can help:)

Lately the department of filology of our university (University of
Tartu) bought a new computer. As I happened to be nearby, I suggested to
choose Linux as the OS. The department seems to be quite satisfied and
does not miss Win&$?@ at all, but yesterday a professor of classical
languages told that he would like to do some typesetting in Greek as
well. I have StarOffice51 on the computer, but as far as I know, it does
support only ISO 8859-1 font encoding. Or is there some way to get also
Greek text out of SO? Anf if this text is saved as RTF, will M$O be able
to read it and vice cersa?

Of course LaTeX would be the best choice (and I checked, Greek text is OK 
with teTeX 1.0), but it probably takes a lot of effort to convert an old
professor (who is afraid of computers anyway) away from WYSIWYG
paradigm. So if SO does not work, perhaps you could point me some other
good editor/typesetting system which would enable Greek text. Is unicode
the answer?

Please reply to me personally as I am not a recipient of your list.


Thank you in advance,
greetings from Estonian Linux users,

Jan (jan at ut.ee)


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