Dear Paul and b-greekers, I tried your suggestions, but Greek was not among the languages that I could add. I too read EGW EIMI in Greek letters in your original message. But your more recent post (reproduced below) contained only "mumbo jumbo". What am *I* missing? Yours in His grace, Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh@juno.com New Haven, CT USA Nibai kaurno hwaiteis gadriusando in airtha gaswiltith, silbo ainata aflifnith: ith jabai gaswiltith, manag akran bairith. On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:32:05 -0500 "Paul Schmehl" writes: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. Ward Powers" > To: "Biblical Greek" > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 3:46 PM > Subject: [b-greek] Re: Ego Emi? > > > Hi Ward. You wrote: > > >3. Paul Schmehl: did you receive it as Greek or as six question > marks > >(which is how it appears in your email when I received it)? > > I received it as Greek letters. And I can tell you that, if you're > using > Windows, you can reproduce Greek letters quite easily by simply > changing > your keyboard layout. For example, I can type εγο ειμι or > ΕΓΟ ΕΙΜΙ in plain > ASCII text simply by switching my keyboard to Greek. If all > B-Greekers > could do this, it would be very nice, but I doubt they can, because > not all > are using Windows. > > Εν αρχη ην ο λογος. ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ ΗΝ Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ > can be typed quite easily simply by > clicking on an icon in my taskbar that allows me to switch between > Greek and > English. It's even possible to supply rough breathings. I haven't > figure > out how to do the accents yet, but I'd be surprised if they weren't > possible. > > Οϋτως γαρ ηγαπησεν ό θεος τον κοσμον > ωστε τον υιον τον μονογενη εδωκεν ίνα > πας ό πιστευων εισ αυτον μη αποληται > αλλ' εχη ζωην αιωνιον. > > >4. Is the day any nearer as yet when we can adopt a program, > download an > >add-on, use a protocol, whatever it takes, which enables us to use > actual > >Greek letters for Greek words? > > The day is actually here for Windows users. I don't believe it is > for Mac > users, although someone with a more intimate knowledge of the Mac > may be > able to confirm that it is. > > For Windows users, just click on Start/Settings/Control > Panel/Keyboard/Language, and Add Greek. Make sure to click on the > box that > says "Enable indicator on taskbar", so you'll have the icon to switch > between languages. > > Καιρετε, > Paul Schmehl pauls@utdallas.edu > p.l.schmehl@worldnet.att.net > http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/ > > > > > --- > B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek > You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [qodeshlayhvh@juno.com] > To unsubscribe, forward this message to > leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu > To subscribe, send a message to > subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu > > --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu