[B-Greek] unicode for typing Greek

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Fri Dec 24 09:37:48 EST 2004


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 15:06:20 +0200 "R Yochanan Bitan Buth"
<ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> writes:
> 
> We may be talking about the same thing.
> 
> Curtis Hinson egrapse
> >This layout may not follow the Greek typewriter keyboard, but it 
> does
> follow the Greek Windows XP layout which I use.  If the issue is
> authenticity to national users, I wouldn't discount the XP layout
> overmuch because it dates back to the original Greek support in
> Windows, I've been using it for several versions of the OS.  I'm
> guessing there are some Greeks who are quite comfortable with the
> Microsoft Greek layout who never even used an actual typewriter. 
> :-)
> >
> 
> I am asking for consideration of the Windows XP layout. It is 
> called
> the Polytonic keyboard and is activated in XP as an additional
> keyboard. It should be the same as the basic Greek typewriter 
> layout.
> Documentation is available at
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/perspectives/polytonic.mspx
> 
> Blessings
> Randall Buth
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The problem which I see in almost all polytonic Greek keyboards is that
they attempt to "simplify" the entry by  combining more than one element
into one keystroke (I use the Unitype GlobalWriter version --
www.unitype.com.  I note that there is a demo version downloadable
there).  This  simply multiplies the number of keys to be remembered.  I
prefer to enter each element separately -- e.g. on the GlobalWriter
keyboard the "q" key enters an alpha with iota subscript, but I enter an
alpha and then enter the subscript.  I find this simpler that attempting
to remember which key enters a smooth breathing with an acute accent,
which key a smooth breathing with a grave accent, which key a smooth
breathing with a circumflex, etc. 

george
gfsomsel
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