[B-Greek] Sending messages in Greek font
Leonard Isaksson
leonardo1orchardcity at mac.com
Thu Dec 31 18:42:02 EST 2009
Thank you for these links. For me, as a Mac user, the helpful link is
to Rodney Decker's site.
Leonard Isaksson
On Dec 31, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Michael Knox wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> … search for truth, hear truth,
>> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth,
>> defend the truth till death.
>>
>>
>> - Jan Hus
>> _________
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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