May 112009
I have written a series of guides on best practices for typing in Greek. The trick is to use Unicode. Though it requires some initial struggle the payoff is enormous, and will save you frustration down the road.
There is a new guide out for Linux users, and it looks excellent (pretty pictures). Find that here.
For Windows setup follow this guide. For fonts, check out my review here. And if you need a font with text-critical glyphs, try this.
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Hey, thanks for sharing the website. I beg to differ with it, however. If you are not intending to use modern Greek, it's best to set Ubuntu/Linux keyboard to Polytonic Greek: fewer key strokes to add diacritical marks. The normal Greece setting presumes modern Greek as normative and the accents as "extras." I've put together a pdf of the most useful GNT diacritical marks. If you email me, I'm happy to share it, copylefted of course.
Margaret,
Wasn't sure if the comment was for me or not. Using a keyboard designed by English techs may offer a speed increase, but for the kind of work I do, the trade off is not worth the benefit of learning something more about Greek culture.
Tommy,
Thanks so much for the congratulations and the suggestion to take another look at Poythress's layouts. I've worked on these for a while before, trying to get them to work but have never had much success. Today, though, for some reason, the setup only took 5–10 minutes, and things now seem to be working seamlessly.
"If at first, you don't succeed…."
Thanks, again.
Blessings,
David