Classical Greek Recommended Word Processing Software

[Callisper]

As far as the original question goes, it’s for now a moot point, since Lukas has opted for GreekKeys2015.

Hardly a reason to nix a productive discussion - especially given that Lukas may well change his mind on suggestion of anything better. (And didn’t exactly sound firm in extolling GreekKeys2015 in the last remark, ‘I think I will use Greekkeys2015 and then maybe the typrgreek web page to cut out the spaces, or maybe I will just use the web page [sc. TypeGreek].’)

I for one enjoy reading about all the options posted up here, seeing how they function and differ from one another, etc.

[RandyGibbons]

I do too. That’s why I asked for a little more detail on the SIL option.

[will.dawe]

I recall they had two polytonic Greek keyboards, one built on MS Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC - this is the framework Mastronarde used for GreekKeys), one on their own framework (Keyman). To your knowledge, are you using the latter?

I use Keyman on Linux, and it provides several keyboards for Ancient Greek, layout made by SIL is only one of them:

• keyman.com/keyboards/languages/grc

I do not know real difference between them, or which one has more features. I use “Galaxie Greek (Phonetic)” because it simply works and covers all my needs in typing Greek:

• keyman.com/keyboards/galaxie_greek_positional
• manual: help.keyman.com/keyboard/galaxie_greek_positional
• on-line demo: keymanweb.com/#el,Keyboard_galaxie_greek_positional

[Psilord79]

Although old, there is an interesting exposition on the Greek circumflex and its Unicode representation to be found at http://www.opoudjis.net/unicode/gkdiacritics.html (§1.2).

[Luiz_H_Guimaraes]

Hi,
TavultSoftware (keyman.com) has several word processors for ancient Greek that can be used in conjunction with Microsoft Word.
They are free.
Best wishes,
Luiz