Greek in moderncv

Hi Kostas,

To be honest, I have no idea of whether moderncv allows you to typeset in Greek. I also don't really know if it is compatible with greektex, but see no particular reason why it shouldn't.

What I think you can do is:
1) Write your resumé in the UTF8 encoding, which I know for sure is supported by moderncv and does include greek letters;
2) Try to use greektex and, if it doesn't work, send me your .tex file so I can try to understand where the conflict is.

Good luck,

Xavier

Hello and many thanks for your prompt reply.

Suggestion 1)

When I type something in Greek I get the following error:

gemenis.tex:136:Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:Κ not set up for use with LaTeX.

I had a look and it seems that UTF8 does not support Greek script. There is a variant utf8x which does support Greek script. When I use utf8x I don't get an error, but the Greek letters do not appear in the output (pdf), only the accents do.

Suggestion 2)

When I put \usepackage{greektex} I get:

gemenis.tex:33:Font LG1/ywclr/m/n/10.95=ywclr11 at 11.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

which looks likes there's a font missing, but I've installed greektex as part of texlive-lag-greek which should contain all the necessary fonts.

Alternative suggestion 3)

Usually, when I want to make bilingual (English/Greek) document I use babel, which does not seem to work properly with moderncv. I don't get an error message, but I cannot use the \selectlanguage and all the characters used in English become Greek.

I hope this will give you a better idea of what might be the problem.

Cheers,
Kostas

This is an update to the previous message.

I managed to get a partially working solution based on 3) above. By trial and error, I figured out that you can use Babel in moderncv but not with \usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc} which would the regular thing to do, neither with the standard utf8 of moderncv but with utf8x

So by putting

\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

and by using \selectlanguage{english}

I can get all the English text no problem, but I still have problems when I switch to Greek with \selectlanguage{greek}
I get

gemenis.tex:0:No file LGRlmr.fd. on input line 152.
gemenis.tex:152: Font shape `LGR/lmr/m/n' undefined(Font) using `LGR/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 152. Font shape `LGR/lmr/m/n' undefined(Font) using `LGR/cmr/m/n' instead
gemenis.tex:152: Font shape `LGR/lmr/m/sl' undefined(Font) using `LGR/lmr/m/n' instead on input line 152. Font shape `LGR/lmr/m/sl' undefined(Font) using `LGR/lmr/m/n' instead
gemenis.tex:0: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

and the Greek words look misplaced/not properly aligned, especially when I use \selectlanguage{greek} within \cvline etc along with English.

It looks like Babel does not have an equivalent Greek font with the one that is used by moderncv

Any ideas?

Unfortunately, I have no idea on the top of my mind.

Could you send me your .tex file so I can play with it and try to solve the problem? You can send it to xdanaux AT gmail DOT com.

Cheers,

Xavier