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Here are instructions for typing in Unicode Polytonic Greek. This will enable you to create Greek documents, web sites, and emails which most current browsers will display properly. It also will allow you to change Unicode fonts without any confusion of characters.
All operating systems are not created equal. Currently Apple’s Mac has a notable edge for typing polytonic Greek in Unicode when comparing their normal accenting systems. Mac operating systems allow for multiple dead key combinations (select breathing, select accent, select subscript and then finally select a letter) and Windows systems only allow for a single dead key. The result is that windows has a key for each possible accent, breather and subscript combination. However, I have created a remedy keyboard for Windows systems called EZAccent and have it freely available for you below (as long as this site remains the only place to download it – I may find some slight improvement tweaks in the future and don’t want multiple versions confusing people.) I have not yet figured out how to do the same thing for Mac’s but its native system is sufficient. The following is how to step up a Greek polytonic keyboard on each of these systems.
After adding Greek to your operating system and installing the keyboard you are ready to start typing in Greek Polytonic Unicode. Note: Always make sure that your font is a font that supports polytonic Greek Unicode characters. If you are sending an email or publishing on the web, the most widely available polytonic Greek Unicode font is Palatino Linotype. Remember if you send an email or write a web page with a font that their viewer doesn’t have, it won’t display properly. Hear a couple ways of typing in Greek polytonic Unicode.
If you have any Windows operating system I hope you have chosen to use my (John Schwandt’s) EZAccent Windows keyboard. I have found that is the easiest system for typing all of the diacritical marks while typing Greek. It runs within your operating system so you can use in anywhere in your system (in any program). If you want a letter to have a breathing mark simply type ‘q’ first for your smooth breather and ‘Q’ for your rough breather. If you want to accent a letter (evening after selecting a breathing mark) simply remember that shift + your vowel is the acute, alt+ctrl (or right alt) + your vowel is the grave, and all three shift+alt+ctrl (or shift+right alt) + your vowel makes the circumflex. I explain the iota subscript combinations in the instruction document. I also have pictures of the keyboard layout there.
I think this is the most effortless system for typing in Greek since you select the accenting at the same time as the vowel rather than before it. It also uses the Greek national keyboard layout for the location for all of the letters. The only downside that in Microsoft Word there are a few shift states that Microsoft decided to use as hot-keys (which should have been reserved for foreign language keyboards). You can disable these in Word if the program attempts to do something other than type a character. (That is what I did and now can’t remember what they were.) If you find any of these to disable (you can accent correctly in other applications like Facebook but not Word), please let me know so I can add this list and instructions for Word to the instruction document.
Remember take a look at the instruction document for all of the details and pictures of how the keyboard works.
There are a number of ways to type accents and breathers with the Mac keyboard. Some involve memorizing a long list of keys with all of the various accenting combinations like Windows symbols. I prefer simply learning one key for each accent type and then typing any number of them before the letter that you wish to accent. Why not use the advantages of your Mac?
This is what I do.
Those four keys can be used in any combination to produce any combination of additional symbols on over your Greek characters. Remember to select your accents before your vowel.
There are download links for both PC and Mac in the right sidebar. It uses slashes for accents and shift states for breathing marks. Some of the consonant positions on the keyboard are more consistent with legacy fonts rather than the ethnic national Greek keyboard layout.
This is keyboard is awkward to use, but it works in most applications, especially Microsoft programs. To do this click on the “EN” in your bottom tool bar and switch your keyboard to “EL” (Greek). Often times ALT-SHIFT is a default hot key combination to do this. Now you should be typing in Greek according to this keyboard map. Here is another page with these instructions: http://www.dramata.com/Ancient%20polytonic%20Greek%20in%20Windows.pdf
The following is a list of key combinations to type in Unicode Greek using an English keyboard. It might differ between different keyboards.
ά type ;a
ὰ type ]a
ᾶ type [a
ἀ type ‘a
ἁ type “a
ἄ type /a
ἅ type ?a
ἂ type a
ἃ type a
ἆ type =a
ἇ type +a
ᾳ type {a
ᾀ type {ctrl} {alt} ;a
ᾲ type {ctrl} {alt} ]a
ᾷ type {ctrl} {alt} [a
There is a shell program that is easier to use than the native keyboard, but is a secondary program that runs in addition to Windows. The accenting is far more intuitive than the native Window polytonic Greek symbols, but some of the characters are different than the ethnic Greek keyboard. You type the accent or breathing after a vowel and only need to learn the location of five accent keys instead of fourteen (above). If you want a circumflex with a breather, click the circumflex key then the breathing key. You can watch the accented letter change before your eyes. If you click the wrong accent, simply click the proper one without having to delete. The accents change as you type them. This is very handy. In order to get a final sigma you have to download the Classical Greek keyboard by Mauel Lopez. The only problems that I have experienced is using with some non Microsoft programs like Word Perfect. Click here to go to the keyman site to download the program. This is the keyboard layout map for Keyman.
This is a program for typing Unicode in Microsoft XP/2000 Software. There is a free demo available. Here is the link: http://www.unitype.com/
There is also a web page that allows one to type in Greek Unicode. You can right click on the page and click “view source”. Then copy all and save it as an HTM page that you can run from your desktop rather than using it online. Here is the link: http://www.users.ox.ac.uk/~tay 0010/letters_caretpos2.htm
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Binaries of the MSMS C library.
This allows you to run msms as a standalone application. A wrapped version of the library comes with MGLTools.