[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Dec 9 11:49:12 EST 2004



Mark Goodacre wrote:

> We've been having some discussion of this issue in the biblioblogs
> too;  one thing that got the discussion going there was an experience
> I had with a session at the SBL at which one of the speakers had
> produced a nice powerpoint presentation with lots of Greek in it, but
> then he discovered that it would not show up on the PC onto which the
> disk had been loaded.  If he'd been using unicode, the problem would
> not have arisen.  (Also he could have embedded his font -- that would
> also have solved the problem).
>
> On the question of how difficult all this is, I remember feeling that
> way a year or two ago.  But one tip that needs underlining is Doug's
> concerning the unicode classical Greek inputter at
> http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/letters_table_caretpos2.htm, a good
> way of working with unicode Greek.  I think Randall suggested that
> this is a "point and click", but actually you can type into this
> facility without trouble, and you can use it off-line.

So what does one do to get the Greek into a document?  Is it simply a matter
of cutting what one types in the display box and pasting it into one's
document?

Yours,

Jeffrey
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