I’ve changed my keyboard settings to Greek polytonic (on Word 2007 using a Vista computer) which means that I can type in Greek: αβγδ… . I’ve worked out how to add accents (ά) although am studying Koine Greek from Wenham who avoids accents in his Elements. Anyway, I can’t work out how to add rough or smooth breathing marks to my vowels. Can anyone give me a clue please…? Thank you!
It’s the same. You just have to hit the right key before your vowel.
’ gives ἀ (smooth breathing).
" gives ἁ (rough breathing).
/ gives ἄ (smooth breathing with acute).
? gives ἅ (rough breathing with acute).
\ gives ἂ (smooth breathing with grave).
| gives ἃ (rough breathing with grave).
= gives ἆ (smooth breathing with circumflex).
- gives ἇ (rough breathing with circumflex).
Regards,
Jason
Thank you so much! I can now do what appears to be a rough breathing if I look very closely at my screen - ἀ. There doesn’t seem to be any way of doing a smooth breathing without an accompanying accent though; is this right…?
Okay, I’ve been playing. On reflection, here are my results:-
Circumflex - ᾶ
Circumflex with smooth breathing - ἆ
Grave accent - ὰ
Acute accent - ά
Smooth breathing with grave - ἂ
Smooth breathing with acute - ἄ
I think that I’m missing all of the possible rough breathings. Any advice please…? When you suggest " plus the vowel for a rough breathing, I don’t actually have a " button: it’s only shift plus 2 on my English keyboard and " isn’t on the Greek keyboard. Sorry if I’m asking really obvious questions! Thanks again…
If a key gives you X + smooth breathing, then shift plus that key gives you X + rough breathing. So ’ gives you just smooth breathing, but " = shift + ’ gives you the rough breathing.
Thank you! It does work. Thank you so much both of you for your help!
[Edited because of initial stupidity]
Final question! By playing around I’ve managed to get a cedilla beneath a vowel - ῳ - but I’m struggling to get a cedilla underneath and another accent above the ω. Any ideas…?
You have to hold down the right alt key to add the iota subscript, so ᾷ is right-alt + [, ᾂ is right-alt + shift + , and so on.
This only doesn’t work for ᾳ which you’ve already got, and ᾴ which you get by right-alt + Q.
Thank you so much! I really do appreciate your help. Somebody needs to write this stuff down somewhere! I really did try googling it… . That should have been my final answer but I’m tempted to ask how you get a Greek semi-colon… 
You mean ·? That’s right-alt + shift + ]
; is q + space (or the way I do it q + q + backspace )
Thank you! I think that I finally have Mark 9 copied from my Nestle-Aland to my laptop, complete with unlearnt accents and fully memorised breathing marks. Now to exegete it