Using Greek Characters: Quick Note for Windows Users
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Using Greek Characters: Quick Note for Windows Users
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Swiftnicholas has saved my life (a little Med exaggeration there) with posting this link. Since you have the Greek alphabet it will be easy for you; just type, as I do, normally in Greek and insert only the accented characters (or the ones with a breathing mark)
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I have had both Taulsoft and the MS IME on XP with Word for several months for Greek typing. I can easily, with both, insert polytonic accents (acute, grave, circumflex) as well as breathing marks (rough and smooth), but I am unable to insert a combination of accent mark and breathing in XP; easy to do with Traulsoft. I especially have a prob with circumflex + breathing as in "he was" or hen. I bet there is a way that I just have yet to learn as XP is almost ubiquitous.
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Nice username!!tabaquera328 wrote:I have had both Taulsoft and the MS IME on XP with Word for several months for Greek typing. I can easily, with both, insert polytonic accents (acute, grave, circumflex) as well as breathing marks (rough and smooth), but I am unable to insert a combination of accent mark and breathing in XP; easy to do with Traulsoft. I especially have a prob with circumflex + breathing as in "he was" or hen. I bet there is a way that I just have yet to learn as XP is almost ubiquitous.
Thank you much,
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Is MS IME the one mfranks talks about? The one you install from the Regional and Language Options? If so, open the doc from the link he gave. It has some nice pictures in about page 12 that shows the keys-combos necessary to type any combination you want.
By the way, my mom's printer refused point blank to print the AG diacritics with other systems. I recently upgraded her Windows to XP, installed the Polytonic Greek, it prints perfectly and isn't it amazing how a woman that for the past 10 years is "unable" to remember standard moves within MS Word learnt half of the keystrokes in one afternoon and the other half next day?
I owe you all a huge thanks
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Accents
Hello; I have followed your very clear directions and had no difficulties getting poly and classical greek fonts. Unfortunately, I can't get my MSW to open, so I can't download and read the white paper. Would anyone be so kind as to indicate the proceedure to aquire accents please? Thanks-Eudaimonia
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Re: Accents
To open office docs, try this also:
http://www.openoffice.org/
I will also post the key combos in case you cannot get it to work:
**Diacritic Marks**
Dasia
Shift+’ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Oxia
Shift+/ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Oxia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+/ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Perispomeni
Shift+= (dead key) & letter
Dasia Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+= (dead key) & letter
Dasia Varia
Shift+\ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Varia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+\ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+’ (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Oxia
` (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Perispomeni
AltGr+` (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Varia
Shift+` (dead key) & letter
Makron
- (dead key) & letter
Oxia
΄ (dead key) & letter
Oxia Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+; (dead key) & letter
Perispomeni
[ (dead key) & letter
Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+[ (dead key) & letter
Psili
‘ (dead key) & letter
Psili Oxia
/ (dead key) & letter
Psili Oxia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+/ (dead key) & letter
Psili Perispomeni
= (dead key) & letter
Psili Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+= (dead key) & letter
Psili Varia
\ (dead key) & letter
Psili Varia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+\ (dead key) & letter
Psili Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+’ (dead key) & letter
Varia
] (dead key) & letter
Varia Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+] (dead key) & letter
Vrachy
Shift+- (dead key) & letter
Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
Shift+[ (dead key) & letter
**Punctuation Marks**
Ano kai kato telia
Shift+; & spacebar
Ano Telia
AltGr+Shift+]
Aposiopitika
AltGr+.
Aristera Eisagogika
AltGr+[ (dead-key) & spacebar
Dexia Eisagogika
AltGr+] (dead-key) & spacebar
Erotimatiko
; & spacebar
http://www.openoffice.org/
I will also post the key combos in case you cannot get it to work:
**Diacritic Marks**
Dasia
Shift+’ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Oxia
Shift+/ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Oxia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+/ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Perispomeni
Shift+= (dead key) & letter
Dasia Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+= (dead key) & letter
Dasia Varia
Shift+\ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Varia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+\ (dead key) & letter
Dasia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+Shift+’ (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Oxia
` (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Perispomeni
AltGr+` (dead key) & letter
Dialytika Varia
Shift+` (dead key) & letter
Makron
- (dead key) & letter
Oxia
΄ (dead key) & letter
Oxia Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+; (dead key) & letter
Perispomeni
[ (dead key) & letter
Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+[ (dead key) & letter
Psili
‘ (dead key) & letter
Psili Oxia
/ (dead key) & letter
Psili Oxia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+/ (dead key) & letter
Psili Perispomeni
= (dead key) & letter
Psili Perispomeni Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+= (dead key) & letter
Psili Varia
\ (dead key) & letter
Psili Varia Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+\ (dead key) & letter
Psili Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
AltGr+’ (dead key) & letter
Varia
] (dead key) & letter
Varia Ypogegrammeni
AltGr+] (dead key) & letter
Vrachy
Shift+- (dead key) & letter
Ypogegrammeni/Prosgegrammeni*
Shift+[ (dead key) & letter
**Punctuation Marks**
Ano kai kato telia
Shift+; & spacebar
Ano Telia
AltGr+Shift+]
Aposiopitika
AltGr+.
Aristera Eisagogika
AltGr+[ (dead-key) & spacebar
Dexia Eisagogika
AltGr+] (dead-key) & spacebar
Erotimatiko
; & spacebar
ἀλλ' ἔγωγε ἐξ αὐτῶν τούτων μᾶλλον αὐτὸν τεθαύμακα, ὅτι ἔν τε ἀλλοκότοις καὶ ἐν ἐξαισίοις πράγμασι αὐτός τε διεγένετο καὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν διεσώσατο. Dio LXXII 36.3
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Thanks, plukidis, for the tutorial; it has thus far proven most helpful with the input of the previously-troublesome perispomeni+iota subscript (á¿·).
How would one input the macron + oxia, or what would one use in lieu? I ask as my current Classical Greek book 'Athenaze' (1e, 1990) uses it and even though I am not required to know the accents for the Konie Greek class, I am trying to learn them anyway as they may wind up being useful.
How would one input the macron + oxia, or what would one use in lieu? I ask as my current Classical Greek book 'Athenaze' (1e, 1990) uses it and even though I am not required to know the accents for the Konie Greek class, I am trying to learn them anyway as they may wind up being useful.
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Re: Using Greek Characters: Quick Note for Windows Users
unlocking this because I'm going to make a new one (this is too old and outdated!). I'll include instructions on setting the greek keyboard in Windows, etc. But I'm curious if you all want to keep the post above from aloimonon with all the key combos. Are those helpful?
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Re: Using Greek Characters: Quick Note for Windows Users
Here is how the professional classicists go about typing Greek. Greekkeys Unicode as developed and advocated by Donald Mastronarde of UC Berkeley.
http://apaclassics.org/publications-and ... kkeys-2008
Good luck to all,
WMR
http://apaclassics.org/publications-and ... kkeys-2008
Good luck to all,
WMR