[B-Greek] RE: Comparing Unicode fonts
Mark Goodacre
goodacre at gmail.com
Tue Feb 8 11:22:03 EST 2005
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:11:57 +0100, Wieland Willker
<willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> Another more serious problem is that it is more difficult to type
> Unicode Greek. You cannot just change the fonts in Word and type Greek.
> You need a special program, e.g. Keyman, with additional tools, which
> are currently rather obscure, to get roughly the same comfort. Not even
> Microsoft has a user-friendly tool. This is not acceptable. (OTOH the
> target group is rather limited.)
I have not found that to be the case -- one can simply switch to a
Greek keyboard within Windows XP / 2000 without trouble. I speak from
recent experience here. After the encouragement from Randall Buth on
this list, I have moved over from using the Unicode Classical Greek
Inputter to switching keyboard with just a couple of strokes. Getting
used to the Greek keyboard takes a little while, but it's worth it. I
found John Schwandt's guide on this to be particularly useful
(http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts/keyboard.html).
Mark
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