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 Note: This is a collection of sites/tools to help students and enthusiasts.
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