I need to find a font that will display the symbols for marking the long and short syllables in poetry in Greek or Latin. The font could even be Unicode. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Dean
Do you have a Mac, care Dean?
I’m sure there was a thread around here somewhere that dealt with how to write macrons - I’d like to use them myself. What’s the best way? By the way, mi luce, I have no mac but only a dell.
-David
Perhaps here
Word > Insert Symbol > Latin Extended A > Ā? Ēē Īī Ō? Ūū > Highlight > Ctrl+C > Ctrl+V
It’s very easy on a Mac, which is why I asked.
Wasn’t there also a keyboard layout for typing macrons the mac? I remember something along those lines.
I’m not sure. But in Macs, at least, you can change the keyboard from English to English Extended (with macrons) to Sophokeys to Hebrew if you want, and preset as many keyboards as you like. It’s really great, and so easy.
Vīuat Σοφοκης.
If you need to write an essay, article or any academic work, I would suggest you to learn LaTeX and the package “Teubner”.
http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html
It’s free (GPL), lots of documentation, etc.
Maybe it is not so easy to learn, but the results are superb. I do not think it’s good for everday use.
Regards
Misopogon
Quasi quasi…
But it does indeed have a high learning curve.
(My first post - only just start learning latin again - ‘o’ level qualification in one year back in the early 70s… - so not qualified to answer questions on the language, but I’ve been using Word for the last 10 years…)
The easiest way (I think…) to add ‘non-standard’ characters in Word is to use the Insert Symbol route as before, but then assign a dedicated key combination to each.
Bring up the Symbol Dialogue in the normal way (Alt+I, S), select the character you want, then choose a shortcut for it.
I have all the lower case macrons as CTL+SHIFT+a etc, which I find easiest for touch typing, but you can also have sequential combinations such as CTL±,a (Control and minus sign simultaneously, release then press a).
This way, you can avoid using the mouse, which I try to do on every possible occasion (nasty little things have no business being on a word processor, yet with every new version, Microsoft makes Word harder and harder to use without one - just look how they’ve messed up the previously simple and effective style dialogue…).
If you create a special template for Latin, you can set all your documents, styles, dictionary/language settings etc once then forget about them - and they won’t interfere with your first language documents…
Regards
David