[B-Greek] Greek Keyboards: An Even Better Solution
Jason Hare
jason at thehebrewcafe.com
Tue Apr 19 15:26:04 EDT 2011
Dear B-Greekers,
I have to agree with those who suggest everyone not use the keyboards that
were not created by those in the countries where the languages are used. I
used to use legacy fonts for Hebrew and Greek, too. I never could have
predicted that I was going to move to Israel, and I'm more than glad that I
took the time to learn the Israeli keyboard layout. I can type Hebrew on any
computer in Israel (whether at work or in the university) without having to
download and install special programs. The same would be true of Greek
should I choose to go to Greece at any point. I love the polytonic Greek
keyboard layout that is released with Windows. I don't see the problem
people have with learning the keyboard layouts. They're completely
reasonable layouts.
Why do people feel the need to make new layouts and rearrange everything?
Why not just learn what we have and become proficient with them? I'm lost as
to the WHY behind this whole discussion.
Regards,
Jason Hare
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dulaney egrapse
> >
>
> I'm really surprised no one has mentioned the Tyndale Unicode
> Keyboards (for both Mac and PC) —maybe somebody did and I missed it.
>
> The package includes the Cardo font and both Greek polytonic and
> Hebrew keyboards, and transliteration for both languages. The Hebrew
> one includes vowel points and accents. And not only is the Cardo font
> very nice looking, it works well for both Greek and Hebrew. Very handy
> if, like me, you want to use Greek and Hebrew/Aramaic script in the
> same document. A keyboard chart for both languages is included.
>
> >
>
> BUT --
> Those keyboards are designed to keep you forever OUTSIDE the
> respective language communities. Is that what you want to lock
> yourself into, or your students?
>
> Neither keyboard paid any attention to either the Greek typewriter
> keyboard or to the Hebrew typewriter keyboard.
>
> So 'free' is already too expensive. The national keyboards are already
> free.
>
> ERRWSO
> Randall
>
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