[B-Greek] Reverse transliteration - national keyboards

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Sun Jul 4 15:28:50 EDT 2004


I support what George is trying to do. "True" Greek fonts should be 
Supported and the Greek typewriter keyboard should be at the base of 
any systems that people promote. See options below.
 
>> I have found a site which has 1 Enoch in Greek.  The problem is that it
>> is in "Bible Works Greek" which appears in my browser as though it were
>> one of our transliterations on this list.  Does anyone happen to have 
>> the
>> capability to EASILY convert this to unicode?  It isn't too difficult 
>> to
>> read this way, but I much prefer a true Greek font.
> 
>Hi George:
> 
>You can get the BibleWorks fonts for free at 
><http://www.bibleworks.com/fonts.html>. There are versions for both 
>Windows and Mac.
> 
>The Greek text at the site you found appears to be all caps with no 
>breathings or accents, but with punctuation.
>============
> 
>Steven Lo Vullo
>Madison, WI
 
For George, the following site has a unicode utility that converts 
most Greek fonts into unicode Greek.
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm
Install the Antioch Greek (BUT avoid the Hebrew, just delete the self 
Installing Hebrew macro at the end of the process) and use the auto
conversion tools within Greek font utility.
You will want to reformat the Vusillus font with the $50 optional package
or else reformat into New Athena Unicode and/or Porson unicode, 
both available for free downloading on the net. Follow 
Links from Perseus or Google.
 
Please note the kind words about the Antioch Greek but not its Hebrew. 
The Greek is according to the national Greek keyboard as a planned 
option 
and according to unicode by definition. The Hebrew is fundamentally 
wrong-headed since it is a left-to-right font in its internal coding. 
You don't want that in your system or to learn such systems. I would
recommend using 'real' Hebrew fonts and keyboards.
 
ERRWSQE

 

 

Randall Buth, PhD

Director, Biblical Language Center

www.biblicalulpan.org

and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel

Hebrew University, Rothberg International School

ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il

 




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