Re: Ancient Greek & AbiWord

On 2/8/07, Michael A Peters <mpeters@mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 00:00 +1100, Andrew wrote:
>
> >
> > This added the Greek Keyboard to which I can easily switch. I used the
> > font DejaVu: beautiful Greek!! But how do I add breathing marks,
> > accents and iota subscripts?
>
> I don't think I've tried it with DejaVu but I'm pretty sure I have done
> it with Palatino Linotype in Fedora using the gnome "Character Map"
> utility. I don't think that is a very speedy way to do polytonic greek
> though. But I don't study it, just occasionally use a word or two
> related to bible study. I'm not positive I've done it in AbiWord.

Reasonable recent versions of gnome (2.4 onwards) sport a "character
palette" panel applet that may speed things up a bit.

- Rob
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Received on Thu Feb 8 15:52:28 2007