[B-Greek] New critical GNT from Mike Holmes!
Don Wilkins
drdwilkins at verizon.net
Thu Oct 28 17:52:01 EDT 2010
Thanks much, John, that did the trick. Incidentally I found that saving the file as UTF-16 enabled Word (my old 2004 version) to open it but not with the prettiest type face. Then saving the file in TextEdit as a PDF gave a very nice result, which may be of interest to those with Mac's who don't want to wait for the PDF download (I assume something similar can be done in Windows).
Don Wilkins
On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:56 PM, John McChesney-Young wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Don Wilkins <drdwilkins at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I can access only the text version, and cannot get a readable text of the Greek. I'm running a new Imac. Advice, anyone?
>
> I'm running an OS version behind you, Leopard (10.5) vs. your Snow
> Leopard (10.6), so there may be some minor differences, but this
> should work.
>
> The text downloads as a .zip file. Find it - and it'll probably be
> either in your Downloads folder or Desktop - and double-click on it
> and it should decompress into a folder with files for each book's text
> and each books apparatus.
>
> OS X by default opens .txt files in TextEdit, which doesn't seem to
> know what encoding to use. With the document *not* already open in
> TextEdit, open TextEdit, go to TextEdit->Preferences..., click on the
> Open and Save tab, and in the Plain Text File Encoding section, change
> Opening Files from Automatic to Unicode (UTF-8). Close the window by
> clicking on the red dot - there's no Okay button, oddly enough, just a
> Restore All Defaults option - and double click on your choice of a
> file to start with and it should open as respectable Unicode Greek.
>
> The process is probably pretty much the same for any full-on word
> processor, but feel free to let me know off-list if you'd like help
> with one of those. (Out of curiosity, I uploaded Matthew to Google
> Docs and it did not work. It might work better with one of the
> alternative on-line word processors - Acrobat.com or Zoho.com - or
> there may be a way to enforce an encoding on Google Docs, but since
> you probably use MS Word or OpenOffice.org or Pages or the like I
> won't bother checking.)
>
> Best,
>
> John
> --
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