Keyboards
I’d been asked how one best types Greek, and when detailing my favourite procedure, I thought this might be of use to others, too… The Greek keyboard has a few nifty features you won’t find elsewhere: for instance, mine is the only keyboard, I believe, where you can type lunate sigmas directly. I also provide a modified version of the US International keyboard which works hand in hand with the Greek one—I called it ‘Latine’ only because ‘International’ seemed rather too vague, or eurocentric… Just have a look.
Update 2010-08-04: I’ve switched to an Apple, so the above is no longer maintained. I hope I’ll find some time to post all the new wonderful Mac things I discovered…
Sunday, 4 November 2007 :: {Tools} :: You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Dear Mr Schmidhauser,
I have followed your instructions for installing Graece 1.5, and I’m pretty sure the installation was successful (I got the kbd-gr15 moved to my C drive). But I do not know how, when I open my Word Microsoft (Office), I can access the Greek script. Do I have to install a font?
I’m not very versed in the arcana of computer systems, obviously. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
12 June 2008 @12:36
Thank you for the comment. I’ve just rewritten the procedure and also added a screen shot to make things clearer. In any case, you need to select the new keyboard only once, and it’ll work in all Windows programs. I normally use a shortcut such as Ctrl-Shift-1 to switch keyboards (as shown by window nº 3 on the screen shot). But in the menu with the title “Text Services and Input Language” (window nº 2), there’s an option called “Language Bar”, which you might want to select—it’ll put a keyboard selector next to the clock in the Taskbar.
30 June 2008 @2:36
Hello,
I’d like make an iota subscript for η. Your website states that the combination [ctrl-alt-.] will work but windows intercepts this and turns it into an ellipsis. Your .pdf layout states [ctrl-alt-,] but this is mapped to a period.
Regards.
28 December 2009 @15:57