[B-Greek] Sending messages in Greek font

Michael Knox mjhknox at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 17:25:11 EST 2009


The Elpenor site provides
instructions<http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/greek-fonts.asp?pg=3>on
how to write in Greek. Once you've activated polytonic Greek, you can
then write in Greek in pretty much anything. Just alt-shift from English to
Greek and you can type in Logos, Word, OneNote, blogger, etc. And if you
need help with the diacritics go
here<http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/gr-pol-keys/greek-keyboard.asp>.
However, once you start typing in some Greek letters into Logos4, it will
start listing all the possible Greek words that fit the letters you've
entered thus far. Selecting one of them saves you from having to worry about
diacritics.

BTW, you should frequent the Logos user
forums<http://community.logos.com/forums/>regularly. Questions posted
there tend to attract helpful responses quickly.

You can also type Greek letters at www.typegreek.com, and then copy and
paste it into Word or Logos.

Rodney Decker has some stuff <http://www.ntresources.com/unicode.htm> on
Unicode and Greek fonts here, but I haven't taken the time to go through
much of it yet.

Perhaps others have better suggestions...

Mike Knox

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:33 PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In L3 Original Languages edition there was (is, actually) an icon in the
> tray which you can use to change between Greek / Hebrew / Syriac and can
> display the keyboard.  This feature is not present in L4 (In L4 they have
> resorted to prefixing entry of Greek or Hebrew in the searches with an "h:"
> or a "g:" followed by a transliteration, but I refuse to use that method),
> but it is possible to download the keyboards with instructions on installing
> them in Windows languages options (
> http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards).  Follow the
> instructions in the PDF file included for their installation.  I use <lft
> alt-shft-1> for English, <lft alt-shft-2> for Greek, <lft alt-shft-3> for
> Hebrew and <lft alt-shft-4> for Syriac.  I have found that on my old Xp
> machine I can type in Word or WordPad or my email with these, but on my new
> laptop with Windows Vista it only works in Logos.
>  george
> gfsomsel
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: John Owlett <owl at postmaster.co.uk>
> To: B-Greek <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 9:05:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Sending messages in Greek font
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Could someone tell me whether there is a simple way to use
> Logos 4 to type messages in Greek and Hebrew?
>
> When I started out on my return to Greek, one of the things
> that folk said I would need was a computer-based package.
> I knew they were right (though it was not what I wanted to
> hear), so I read the archives for comments on the packages
> ... and eventually bought the Logos 4 Original Languages
> Pack together with the Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible and
> BDAG.
>
> And it terrifies me.  I have all this powerful software
> sitting in my laptop and I don't know how to use it.  So
> far I have just used it for reading the books in the library,
> occasionally right-clicking on a word to look it up in the
> dictionaries.
>
> I feel sure that it must contain a way to type in Greek and
> Hebrew, but I haven't found it yet.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Later,
>
> Dr Owl
>
> ----------------------------
> John Owlett, Southampton, UK
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