[B-Greek] Greek fonts and transliteration
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Jun 8 08:20:12 EDT 2005
I think this may be more helpful to Richard, if what he's looking for
is something to ease the pain
of converting a Greek text for discussion on B-Greek into our
standard transliteration ASCII. You
look up the passage in a Unicode Greek font in his browser and use
the option for "B-Greek
translation"
> From: "Zack Hubert" <zhubert at gmail.com>
> Date: March 17, 2005 3:56:42 PM EST
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Transliterating Greek for b-greek
>
> Greetings,
>
> Last night I added to my website a tool which I hope is of value to
> you as
> you participate in the discussions here: a b-greek transliteration
> option.
> This will allow you to quickly render passages from Scripture into the
> b-greek format with a simple copy/paste.
>
> To use it:
>
> 1) Begin by bringing up the passage of interest (eg.
> http://www.zhubert.com/bible?book=John&chapter=3&verse=16 )
> 2) Then in the lower left, select an alternate "translation" just
> as you
> would if you were adding a parallel passage for viewing. In this
> case,
> you'll want to select the 'bgreek' translation as opposed to the
> ESV, KJV,
> or NASB.
> 3) Click the "Add" button, and the bgreek transliterated text will
> show up
> on the right.
> 4) Copy/paste, and you're all set!
>
> hOUTWS GAR HGAPHSEN hO QEOS TON KOSMON hWSTE TON hUION TON MONOGENH
> EDWKEN
> hINA PAS hO PISTEUWN EIS AUTON MH APOLHTAI ALL ECHi ZWHN AIWNION
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Zack Hubert
> Fuller Theological Seminary (MaT, 2004)
> zhubert at gmail.com
> WWW: http://www.zhubert.com
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:03 PM, James Ernest wrote:
> If you have a substantial amount of Greek in an existing file, I'd
> never
> retype. If you're using Word docs on a Windows system, a good
> utility for
> batch replacements is ReplSoft's Batch Replacer for MS Word 1.7--
> you can
> find it on the web. Newest version allows you to specify font for
> both the
> search string and the replace string. You create the translation
> table as an
> Excel spreadsheet.
>
> --------------------------------
> James D. Ernest, Ph.D., Editor
> Baker Academic
> jernest at BakerAcademic.com
> --------------------------------
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
>> Richard Richmond
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:45 AM
>> To: BGreek
>> Subject: [B-Greek] Greek fonts and transliteration
>>
>>
>> Is there a program out there that takes a true type Greek
>> font and transforms it to transliteration. Or is the only
>> method to type the text in manually?
>>
>> Rick Richmond
>> rickr2889 at yahoo.com
>>
>>
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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