[B-Greek] offline question: what keyboard for typing greek transliteration?

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Jul 24 08:36:53 EDT 2009


On Jul 24, 2009, at 7:56 AM, ken chan wrote:

> Hi. Question: Which language and which keyboard do you use to type  
> Greek
> transliteration? For example, the symbol o (with a line on top) to
> denote omega. Thanks.

I think this is an appropriate question for on-list discussion,  
inasmuch as we do encourage that posters use transliteration or  
transliteration accompanying unicode Greek citations. If you're  
concerned about transliteration for B-Greek, see the transliteration  
page and the table of equivalences at: http://ibiblio.org/bgreek/bgtransliteration.html 
  (this is the final portion of the B-Greek FAQ at http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.html 
  ; our own conventional character for Omega is "W" as distinguished  
from "O" for Omicron. Common also are the Beta-Code equivalents, where  
a "=" typed AFTER a vowel indicates the long-vowel, e.g. "A=" = α,  
"O=" = ω, etc.

But the answer to this question depends upon your operating system and  
software.

On a Mac using OS X 10.5.7 and an extended US (UTF-8) keyboard, I can  
press option-a and then the key for the vowel in question and the  
result is the vowel with a macron (long mark) over it, thus: ō. With a  
different keyboard, the key(s) to be typed might be different.

There are different options to be used in any particular Windows or  
Linux operation system.


Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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