Are you using Unicode to type in ancient Greek (if not, follow this guide)? Do your prefer OpenOffice to Microsoft Office? Well today is the day where it all pays off. There is only one Word Processor in the world that spell-checks ancient Greek, and that’s OpenOffice. You can set it up by installing this plugin for OpenOffice 2.4 or higher.
Some of you may have been wondering where I’ve been. I am spending a lot of concentrated time right now on my dissertation, among other things, and as a result have not been able to publish as much as I would like on Nerdlets.org. More posts are coming, and I hope to return to my previous level of productivity soon.
one of my photos. Check out my flickr page for more
In the mean time, you can find me in other areas of the internet. I’m on twitter, friendfeed, and flickr to name a few (friendfeed is my new favorite because it aggregates everything). It’s easier and quicker to interact with those sites than it is to write full-fledged blog posts, so I have been more active there lately. I would love to interact with you there, as well as here!
Next on tap for nerdlets.org (time permitting): new (open-domain) ebook for the Greek New Testament (Tischendorf or Westcott), keeping up your Greek over the summer, managing contacts, backing up your computer, securing your home from internet dangers, update on the OpenScriptures project and related sites (Ressurgence Greek, etc.).
Mourning the loss of Zhubert? Me too, and I will have an update on the copyright discussions soon, and a new eBook of the GNT as well.
In the mean time there is an excellent new reader’s Bible available that is based on Tischendorf‘s Greek New Testament. Check that out here. It features handy footnotes and popups. You will need Google Gears for it to work, but that’s an easy install.
HT: Justin Taylor
Update:David Stark points out that the site also displays the OT, with notes for both Hebrew and Aramaic.
Phil Gons has some excellent information regarding a newly released site: OpenLibrary.org. It is an offshoot of the already mentioned Internet Archive. In addition to providing a whole host of open-domain books in full text (just over 1 million at time of writing), they have the ambitious goal of dedicating a page for every book ever written!
Check out Phil Gons’s post for the details, as well as a list of other sites that provide free books. It is very much worth a bookmark. As is everything Phil graces us with, like this little gem.
