[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Dec 9 12:10:58 EST 2004


At 10:49 AM -0600 12/9/04, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>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?

Well, FWIW, I was able to do my "Brief Commentary on Mark" with Unicode
Greek by using the Gentium font with the GreekKeys Unicode keyboard--I
typed directly into Mozilla's "Composer" module, and this is on a Mac. I
can do the same for a document in Word 2004 for Mac, and I'd imagine that's
exactly what a Windows user would do to, however your keyboards work for
that. On a Mac in System OS X one can easily toggle keyboards back and
forth from a popup menu in the menubar.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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