[B-Greek] Frustrated Greek Learner!!!
Jeffrey T. Requadt
jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 7 11:25:50 EDT 2004
If you have Windows XP, the language capabilities are much better than older
versions and you can actually simply install the Greek language set by going
through the Control Panel, installing the Greek, and then switching
languages when you need to type in Greek. Also, I have found the Greek and
Hebrew tools at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILgrkuni to be
quite useful. I have downloaded their Galatia font, but I have a different
Unicode font which I like better. However, the keyboard that they have
developed for Keyman is great and works with **any** Unicode font that has
Greek characters (you will have to download and install Keyman from their
website, but it is free for non-commercial use). That's the beauty of
Unicode fonts, because they're not Greek fonts. They're fonts that have both
Roman and Greek and whatever else characters, so if the language is set to
English or French or a Roman character system, it uses those characters, and
if the language is set to Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Ethiopic, or whatever, it
uses those characters. I have used the old Greek fonts, but this Unicode
thing that has been developed is so much better and easier to use. And with
the SIL keyboard, you can type accents, breathings, subscript, etc. It even
automatically uses the correct form of the sigma. This should work fine in
Windows 2000 or XP, and there is documentation included with the download to
enable those of us who don't actually program fonts to successfully use the
keyboards and type in different languages (I currently have English, French,
Greek, Hebrew, and Latvian installed on my computer due to the wonderful
capabilities of Windows XP, and I can easily switch between all of them).
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Erick Venden
Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 9:46 PM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [B-Greek] Frustrated Greek Learner!!!
I have been trying for the past several weeks to sort a list of Greek
words and their translations that I have put together in Microsoft Excel
alphabetically according to the Greek. I have tried everything I can
think of with now luck. I have wasted many hours on this and am now
frustrated. I know that this should not be so difficult, as Microsoft
Excel sorts according to the English language why not the Greek. I
suspect also that there is a way to sort Greek in one column and then
English in another. Has anyone else experienced this same frustration.
Can anyone help me so that I can sort this list in Greek.
Thanks for your help,
Erick Venden
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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