Re: Ancient Greek & AbiWord

Hi,

 I can certainly achieve a certain success with using 'Insert Symbol'
but it is not a particularly intuitive way of doing it, as well as a
little cumbersome. A set of key combinations, as you suggested would
be ideal.

                           Andrew

On 2/9/07, Bartłomiej Kowal <bartukas@gazeta.pl> wrote:
>
> Dnia 08-02-2007 o 18:49:40 Michael Ward <mward@interbaun.com> napisał(a):
>
> >
> > There are two fonts I know of with accents/breathings, SGreek and
> > SPIonic.
> > Both are freeware (I believe) TTFs, available at various web sites. Try
> > here,
> > for example:
> >
> > http://www.theology.edu/fonts.htm
> >
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/fonts/
> >
> > I've never tried these with AbiWord, but they work with MSWord and
> > OpenOffice.
> >
> > I've still never found a Greek font that looked as good as the one I got
> > for
> > WordPerfect 5.x around 1990...
> >
>
> Have you tried Gentium font? It should be present in all Ubuntu's and for
> Windows it could be downloaded from www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium site.
> I'm using Gentium for 16th century Old Lithuanian texts and there is
> really a huge amount of diacritics. There are also Ancient Greek
> characters in this font.
>
> For me the problem is that I could not find ALL characters/symbols in
> AbiWord. Insert Symbol function allows me only to insert some 200
> characters, and in Gentium font there are thousands of them. Using Windows
> Character Map is not as usefull as Insert Symbol function in MS Word,
> which gives me access to all characters/signs in font and to possibility
> assign key-combinations to insert specific symbols (e.g. accents).
>
> Am I missing something or there is no possibility to insert additional
> characters in AbiWord from AbiWord?
>
> Bartek
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