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twuandy Right now I only use the letters - small and capital - and I like the
Tavultesoft Classical Greek sretup.
Andrew Fincke
>From: "John Hudson"
>Reply-To: "SBL Fonts"
>To: "SBL Fonts"
>Subject: Greek keyboard layouts
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:30:05 -0800
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> In support of the SBL Greek fonts, I intend to produce some
>Unicode keyboard layouts and drivers. There are a number of polytonic
>keyboards already available, some of which work with Unicode characters and
>some of which were made to work with hacked 8-bit encodings. Since users
>are likely familiar with one of these existing keyboard layouts, I want to
>ensure that the most popular layouts are available for working with SBL
>Greek and other Unicode fonts.
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>In addition to existing keyboard for entering standard polytonic Greek
>text, most or all of which use a deadkey mechanism to enter sequences of
>marks and letters, there is a need for a means to enter decomposed Unicode
>letter + combining mark(s) sequences. Deadkey-based keyboards are only
>useful for addressing precomposed diacritic characters, so while they can
>be used to input standard polytonic diacritic letters as encoded in Unicode
>as precomposed characters, they cannot enter arbitrary combinations of
>letters + marks. This means they cannot input some of the pre- or
>non-standard combinations of letters and marks that occur in some ancient
>documents, or which might be needed in lexicons (e.g. vowels with both
>macrons and breathing/tone marks). So one of my priorities will be to make
>a non-deadkey keyboard in which, following Unicode requirements, combining
>marks are keyed *after* the letter to which they apply. Users may not use
>this keyboard on a regular basis, but it will be very useful for dealing
>with unusual texts.
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>I have done some research into existing kayboard layouts such as GreekKeys
>and Betacode. I am hoping that the user community can provide some feedback
>on what layouts they are currently using, what Unicode drivers might
>already exist for such layouts, and what layouts they would like to be able
>to use with the SBL Greek fonts.
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