[B-Greek] OT e-Mail Fonts

bertdehaan at sympatico.ca bertdehaan at sympatico.ca
Fri Jun 10 19:43:44 EDT 2005


 Carl Conrad wrote:

2. Personally I don't see that typing Unicode Greek is really any  
easier than using the conventional
BG transliteration scheme: you have to press the appropriate key to  
get the right Greek character, and
even if you don't use breathings and accents (althought we do try to  
indicate a rough breathing
with "h"), you have to know the keyboard for typing the Unicode Greek  
characters. I honestly don't
think that's a great deal easier than learning to use the  
transliteration scheme.
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I don't have a lot of trouble entering the transliterated text, (It might be a little easier if all the Greek letters were transliterated using the Beta-code pattern.) but I do find it hard to read.
I am getting used to it now but when I just joined this list, I had trouble even with short words. I had to picture them in my mind in Greek letters to know what was meant.
Now, I still look up longer passages in the GNT rather than decipher the tranliteration.
Being able to read the posts without having to all that, would be the main advantage for me. (Being the computer rooky that I am, I have no idea if my computer has uni-code capibilities.)
Bert de Haan.





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