Typing Greek

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I’ve been trying to use this PDF https://www.ctsfw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Greek-Unicode-Keyboard-Input-Windows-10.pdf to type Greek when I want to ask a question in this forum, but I’m danged if I can figure out some of the more complicated combinations of accents, breathing marks and iota subscripts! For example, how would I type the vowel eta so that it has both a grave accent and an iota subscript?According to the PDF, typing ] and then h gives ὴ (which it does) and typing SHIFT + [ and then h gives ῃ (which it does), but how do I get them both working together? Can anyone help?

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Ack, never mind, I didn’t see the sticky post “Typing Ancient Greek” at the top of this subforum. Holding down the RIGHT ALT key and then typing ] followed by SHIFT + [ and then release the RIGHT ALT key and press h and the result is ῂ as desired.

One question, though: What’s the difference between Greek monotonic accent and Greek polytonic accent? This is mentioned in the linked PDF “titled Typing Ancient (Polytonic) Greek in Windows (dramata.com)” in that sticky post.

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You may sneer at it as an easy way out, but I’m no keyboard whiz, far from it, so I write out everything in Word first, using the Insert Symbol feature when I have to. The Times New Roman font has just about every combination you could think of, including the iota subscript:

ᾂ ᾃ ᾄ ᾅ ᾆ ᾇ

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yeah that would work :wink:

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I use GreekKeys, and highly recommend it.

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Thanks, that looks like a bit more than I’ll need right now, but I’ll keep it in mind for the future :slight_smile: