[B-Greek] Koine Greek Kashruth?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 23 21:07:53 EDT 2011


If you get the Keyman Developer kit, you can produce your own keyboard.  Change 
α to ζ if you like.  :-)  


 george
gfsomsel 


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From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
To: B-Greek List mail to all <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; Carl Conrad 
<cwconrad2 at mac.com>; Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, April 23, 2011 5:51:03 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Koine Greek Kashruth?


What the heck is Kashruth anyway?

Kosher KATA Buth?  Would not that be KashVuth?

Although this thread is getting tedious, perhaps we should give some good web 
links or links
to a few pdf's which describe the Greek National Polytonic keyboard to us. 

For starters, I know John Scwandt has his own utility for windows. He says it is 
easier on MAC
because Windows only allows one dead key. I have not tried it because  I use 
Tavultesoft Keyman
(It sounds so nice, doesn't it George, TA-VUL-TE-SOFT. I can even say that in 
1st Century Koine.)
But as far as I know, for  Tavultesoft, I only have the choices of Galaxy and 
Greek Classical 

which are based on the system I know as the TLG betacode. I don't know if a 
Keyboard actually 

exists for this. If I made one up, I would call it tge TLG Greek Betacode 
Keyboard, and at least
by that name, people would know what keyboard I am using.

Are there any examples of a DVORAK Greek keyboard or links for them. People have 
dropped the term,
but I don't know what this means in reality -- give me a link to several DVORAK 
ancient Greek
keyboard layouts.

I think a differentiation needs to be made in the KEYBOARD WARS (viz CLONE WARS) 
which has not been
stated explicitly. I think what Randall and his friends are saying is that when 
teachers of Greek
begin to introduce students to typing in Greek (is there any section in any 
beginning grammar 

that has a section on this topic....? This is one of the assumptions that people 
who write 

grammars make -- but the beginning student is left on his own how to do this. I 
suggest that
Randall set up a web page on his site to encourage the GREEK National layout. 
This would be
helpful to beginning students.  

The contra to this is that those who are already fluent in typing
polytonic Greek, would 'feel' more Greek if they used a national layout, but 
this would really
only be of Great value if they are international wandereres and get the chance 
to use 

a computer which has a Greek layout/language as the default. 

I'm still a little confused on the Microsoft polytonic Keyboard layout? Is it 
they same as 

which Buth recommends? I assume the layout of the keys is the the same, but how 
about the
diacritics.

Any light anyone can shed on this for me would be helpful, and I think all who 
have been
watching this thread go on and on would appreciate a few substantive links.

Louis Sorenson

Carl wrote:
>As a certified card-carrying old fuddy-duddy, a.k.a. grumpy old man (that too), 
>I see no
>reason to keep my opinion all to myself while others are flaunting theirs (what 
>else is
>new about B-Greek discussions?). Now it's the battle for the "kosher" Koine 
>keyboard
>(after using  GreeKeys for 20 years, I don't think I'll be changing over to 
>Greek
>Polytonic); with almost clockwork regularity we have a free-for-all over the 
>"kosher"
>Koine pronunciation method.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)


                        
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