![]() See also, Bill Thayer’s cyborg Typinator.ĥ. A similar utility mentioned by Mt Holyoke and Baumann for Apple products is SophoKeys (yay wordplay!). I have not tried Keyman, but it looks promising. You need to do it from a private residence. Campus antivirus programs will not allow it to be downloaded and installed. Also see the resources at Penn State’s Symbol Codes or University College of London’s “ Greek Fonts and Typing Greek“Ĥ. A somewhat outdated online guide from Mt. See also his page on the ChromeOs extension. For iOS and Android, Ryan Baumann suggests the Hoplite Polytonic Greek Keyboard. pdf from Smith College Classics by Sarah AbowitzĢ. Here’s the equivalent for doing it in an Apple one. A handout for polytonic Greek in a windows environment. Please add comments and I will add to the list.ġ. But don’t get too frustrated–just imagine what it was like before computers! Apple/MAC products tend to have simpler instructions, but sometimes still present challenges. (There are assistance utilities for those of us who have less patience/ability). Most devices already have settings that allow you to do this. and then checking against varied editions.) But if you want to be a Greek Boss you need to change your keyboard settings. (And, if you are quoting long portions of Greek text, I strongly suggest just copying and pasting from the TLG, Perseus, etc. If you are just copying and pasting things already used in Greek, you don’t actually need to change anything. Just to clarify, then, the challenge is getting your device to assign the symbols you want to the keyboard you have and to modify these symbols with diacritical marks (breathings, accents, etc.). The main challenge for those of us with Roman letter keyboards is that we need to be able to use Polytonic Greek (Polytonic means “with many accents and diacritical marks” most Greek keyboards are for the simpler modern Greek). Unicode has made things much easier because almost every font can potentially be Greek.īut text entry can remain an issue for new Greek users. But, it did involve keyboard maps that looked like this: ![]() I won’t regale you with horror stories of the days of symbol based fonts when every journal used a different format that required separate entry or converters. Typing ancient Greek on computers and hand-held devices is increasingly necessary, but remains more difficult than it needs to. I am posting it gain because I frequently get the question and there is no simple answer SophoKeys keyboard layout was written by Benjamin Blonder.Īn example from the opening of Homer's Iliad.Note: This is a collection of sites/tools to help students and enthusiasts. ![]()
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