[B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek
Dewayne Dulaney
dewayne.dulaney at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 17:29:15 EDT 2010
Typing accents can certainly be a pain, especially when doing Greek
composition. Remembering the rules for accent is not easy; they're a
bit complicated. At least I've never managed to internalize them. When
I was first learning Greek it didn't matter, though, as I seldom wrote
it except for flash cards to learn/review vocabulary.
I usually don't use them when I compose Greek, as on the ΣΧΟΛΗ (SCOLH)
site. And very seldom is there any problem reading it without accents,
either.
When I want to type them though, a good solution I've used
successfully on both Macs and PCs is the Tyndale Unicode Font kit. The
kit installs virtual keyboards for both Greek and Hebrew and comes
with the Cardo font, which can be used for both Greek, Hebrew, and
transliteration. Capability to do accents and breathings for Greek and
the Masoretic vowel pointing for Hebrew is built in. A printable chart
of the keyboard mapping is included. (I printed and laminated mine,
and have it handy in case I need to refresh my memory.) If you want to
use other Greek and Hebrew fonts, they usually work well with the
keyboards also, as long as they are Unicode.
The kit is available as a free download at
http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/index.php?page=unicode.
Hope this helps!
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the world!"--John 16:33, DDV (Dewayne Dulaney Version)
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