Hi guys…
I have installed the font, and it is now available in my Pages, but I could not find a guide of the keyboard…
I wonder where I can find such a guide telling me how to input certain characters.
The easiest way for me is to use an online keyboard https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/greek_ancient.htm
This is enough for me because I don’t need to enter long texts so far.
As you mention, the fonts only can help rendering the letters in this very specific font; I’m not sure if you also set up your keyboard on your operating system?
For longer texts you’ll need to set up Greek Polytonic keyboard on your operating system. Your OS settings also normally give you an option to display the current keyboard layout.
The diacritics over vowels are normally around the Enter key. W is Omega, Q is Theta and the rest is quite clear from the latin letters.
There is a way to input characters not arenot set up for your keyboard but it’s using unicode key combinations which is not practical I find if you don’t want to input more than a single character.
Thank you very much Sir!
finally I figure out an easy way to type macon and acute accent on the same letter…
just define “bold” ones (α,ι,υ) as long vowels!
problem solved!
yah!
seanthesheep, when you say “New Athens Unicode”, are you talking about the font that comes (optionally) with the GreekKeys2015 keyboard from the Society for Classical Studies (formerly American Philological Association)? If so, and if you’ve installed GreekKeys, you should have a folder called GreekKeys2015 and under it a subfolder GK2015 Documentation. Keep drilling down and you will find a keyboard chart for your system.
Also, if it happens to be GreekKeys2015 you’re talking about, be sure to distinguish between the software keyboard and the font. Using the New Athens Unicode font is entirely optional. If you are going to eventually be preparing digital documents to share with others, you may find it a problem (as I did) when others don’t have that font installed. I mostly use Times New Roman and Calibri, for example, because of their universal availability.
Apologies for the distraction if GreekKeys is not what you’re talking about.
Thank you!
hey guys I bought Greekkeys2015 and now I can type freely! (except that with both macron and iota subscript on one letter, which is shown in the textbook).
cheers!
bleat!
Bleat us some Greek writing your next time around!