Thursday, February 9, 2006 Ludvik Engelbrekt Nikulainen wrote: > The problem is that alphabets in classical greek can > include multiple diacritical marks. Most of what is > needed can be accessed already through the Unicode > Extended Greek subset (for instance Unicode 1F84 > depicts the greek letter alfa with a spiritus lenis, a > grave accent and an iota subscriptum). In an optimal > situation, e.g. some papyrological diacritics like > underdots should be implemented as well, also readily > available through Unicode. There is however no way - > except through the 'Special Characters' menu - to add > these letters to documents in OpenOffice.
Although not a scholar, I have a passing interest in writing polytonic Greek. If you use Windows XP, you can install e.g. the Logos Biblical Greek keyboard, available at http://www.logos.com/support/lbs/fonts/GreekKeyboard With this keyboard, diacritical marks (breathings, accents etc) are input /after/ the letter they go on (so you write a]\ndra). This is obtained by using the combining diacritical marks instead of the usual Windows XP way of the dead keys. This input method has a problem though: OOo202 doesn't seem to cope well with combining diacritical marks, so the results in OOo are appalling. Other programs however handle this properly. (Yes, I had to report this before but I had forgotten, thanks for reminding me.) Other options to input classical greek can be found e.g. here http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts/keyboard.html -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
