[B-Greek] [Fwd: New Greek Transcoder]
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 27 19:07:57 EDT 2005
From the Classics list, with permission of the original poster:
New Greek Transcoder for Mac and PC
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Greek Transcoder, a new and free program by David-Artur Daix, has just been
launched. It will convert any of the common formats for classical Greek to
any other. The program is a Microsoft Word template which works in both Word
for PC (minimum specification Word 2000, Windows 98) and Word for Mac
(minimum specification Word 2004, OS X 10.2.8).
At present Greek Transcoder will convert between the following encodings:
Beta Code
GreekKeys
Ismini
LaserGreek
Paulina Greek
SGreek (including TLG variant)
SPIonic
SuperGreek (old version)
Unicode (with combined or separate diacritics)
WinGreek (and Son of WinGreek)
It will also sort separate diacritics into the correct order to make them
work properly in Uniscribe (PC) or ATSUI (Mac).
The program is simple to use: you just have to set the fonts used in the
original and to be used in the converted document, which is automatically
saved as a new file, leaving the original intact. Encoding systems are
recognised from the font name. If using a font unknown to the program, you
can go to 'expert mode', which allows you to select font name and encoding
independently.
Otherwise, the conversion process is automatic, including the combination or
decombination of diacritics to suit the target encoding. Conversion may take
a minute or two, or a bit more if you choose to sort diacritics or if the
document is very long.
This is a large program, in a zip file of around 5.5 MB or a slightly
smaller Stuffit archive. There is no installer: files have to be copied to
folders by hand, but there are clear instructions on this.
Greek Transcoder is distributed free, but the author asks for a contribution
from people who find it useful. He will devote the money to buying
REALBasic Professional, a cross-platform VBA-compatible programming tool
that will make the program smaller and more efficient.
I have beta tested several versions of Greek Transcoder and find that it
does a very clean job, and salute Mr Daix for his meticulous work. As the
distributor of Antioch, I am pleased to find that the two programs, which
share a folder, can exist together without interference.
Greek Transcoder may be downloaded from www.greektranscoder.org
<http://www.greektranscoder.org> .
Ralph Hancock
hancock at dircon.co.uk <mailto:hancock at dircon.co.uk>
www.hancock.dircon.co.uk <http://www.hancock.dircon.co.uk>
(end quote)
In his note to me giving me permission to re-post this ("the more, the
merrier," he said) Ralph Hancock added:
By the way, the author
intends to add some more encodings soon, so keep watching the site. If and
when he gets his improved compiler, the cumbersome file size should shrink a
lot.
(end quote)
John
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*** John McChesney-Young ** panis~at~pacbell.net ** Berkeley,
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