LaTeX: support for Greek and Cyrillic

0. do not escape Unicode Greek letters via LaTeX math mark-up: pass them
   through un-modified to LaTeX document,

1. if "fontenc" receives extra option LGR, then pdflatex will support
   Unicode Greek letters (not in math), and with extra option T2A it
   will support (most) Unicode Cyrillic letters.

2. for pdflatex with LGR, this will use "textalpha" LaTeX package and
   "substitutefont" package to set up some automatic font substitution
   to work around the unavailability of Greek with "times"
   package (which is default font package chosen by Sphinx for
   pdflatex), same with T2A and "substitutefont" for Cyrillic.

3. for xelatex/lualatex, set up Computer Modern Unicode as default font,
   as it supports Cyrillic and Greek scripts,

4. for platex, don't do anything special as the engine already has
   its default font supporting Cyrillic and Greek (even in math mode!)

Closes: #5251
Fixes:  #5248
Fixes:  #5247

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/usage/builders/index.rst b/doc/usage/builders/index.rst
index e7ad13bd1..3f16c84e5 100644
--- a/doc/usage/builders/index.rst
+++ b/doc/usage/builders/index.rst
@@ -164,6 +164,8 @@ The builder's "name" must be given to the **-b** command-line option of
    * ``texlive-latex-recommended``
    * ``texlive-fonts-recommended``
    * ``texlive-latex-extra``
+   * ``texlive-fonts-extra``, ``texlive-lang-greek`` (if needed to
+     support Greek or Cyrillic letters in non-cyrillic document)
    * ``latexmk`` (for ``make latexpdf`` on GNU/Linux and MacOS X)
    * ``texlive-luatex``, ``texlive-xetex`` (see :confval:`latex_engine`)