GREEK
FONTS FOR PC (INTERNET EXPLORED CONFIGURATION)
Arial Greek
(arial.zip)
Times
New Roman Greek (times.zip)
Avant
Greek TrueType (avant.zip)
)
Download the font file or files
to your disk and execute the relative ".exe"
to extract the appropriate fonts.
From the Control Panel, double-click on Fonts icon, and press the Add button.
Select the fonts that you would like to install and click
OK.
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser
for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Fonts. Select Greek
in the 'Language Script' area.
At the Web-page font select a Greek one you have extracted
e.g. Arial Greek and at the Fixed-width font select
Courier New.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Languages. Add the
greek language at the list and put it at the top.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Encoding - Greek
ISO, or View - Encoding - Greek (Windows). Also, if the
Autoselect option is checked, uncheck it.
GREEK FONTS FOR MACINTOSH (INTERNET
EXPLORED CONFIGURATION)
Greek
font for Mac (mac_928.sit.hqx)
Downolad and decompress the file. After decompression place new fonts in the fonts folder, which is in your system folder.
Netscape (versions 4.5 and higher):
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser
for the Greek encoding.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences -
Appearance - Fonts.
Here, you should change "For the Encoding"
to Greek,and select fonts (from the new installed) for
the Variable Width Font and the Fixed Width Font. For
the "Sometimes a document will provide its own
fonts." option, select Use my default fonts, overriding
document-specified fonts.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences -
Navigator - Languages.
Here, you should add the Greek language and put it on
top of the list.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set
- Greek ISO-8859-7. Also select View - Character Set
- Set Default Encoding.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions 5.x:
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser
for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Edit - Preferences - Languages/Fonts. Add Greek
language in the list.
Select one font from those you've just installed at
the fonts selections.
Select ISO 8859-7 as the default Character set.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set
- Greek ISO 8859-7.
Windows Greek keyboard installation
Go to: Start -> Control Panel ->
Regional and Langage options -> tab Languages -> button Details. You will probably have only
English there, so if you do not see Greek, click on
Add..., and select Greek from the list.
You should now see GR Greek Greek. There
are various layouts available, highlight the line for
Greek, and click on Properties, there you can select
other Greek keyboard layouts, like Polytonic Greek (applicable only to Windows XP).
Before clicking the OK button, choose
which key combination you want for the Switch languages
option, I prefer Ctrl+Shift but you can have Left Alt+Shift.
So select whichever you want and make sure that the
"Enable indicator in taskbar" option is checked.
Also, depending on which language you will be using
more often, you can chose to set one of the languages
as the default (indicating which keyboard driver should
be active when Windows starts up).
GREEK FONTS FOR LINUX
download Greek font for Linux
How to use the Greek keyboard:
Use Ctrl+Shift or Left Alt+Shift to switch
between the English and Greek keyboards or any other
installed keyboards. To type an accented vowel, press the ';' (semicolon)
key and then the vowel (separately). To use the diaeresis (like umlaut) accent, press ':'
(colon - that is, Shift+semicolon) before the vowel.
To use both diaeresis and accent on ι ( ΐ ) and υ (ΰ),
press Right Alt+Shift+: before the vowel. To type ';' (the Greek question mark) and ':'
(colon / ano-kato teleia) you need to press 'Q' and
'SHIFT-Q' respectively.
The Greek semicolon ('ano teleia') is missing as it was not included by ELOT in the Greek standards! There is a trick however to add it to your keyboard. From Word for Windows go to Insert -> Symbol -> and find the Greek semicolon symbol (8th line 7th character from the left) -> Select Shortcut Key -> In the field Press New Shortcut Key press the keys Ctrl+Shift+colon (the key immediately to the right of the "L" key) -> Click Assign. This is it. From now on the Greek semicolon will appear on Word when you press Ctrl+Shift+colon.
In some applications, Left Alt+Shift may not switch
keyboards. You may be able to manually switch the keyboard
by clicking the 'En' or 'Gr' icon in the taskbar or
select and use the alternative keyboard shortcut provided
which is Ctrl+Shift.
Using the Greek keys
You can use a utility like Microsoft Visual keyboard if you are confused as to which English keys correspond to which Greek letters.
Microsoft Visual keyboard supports typing in more than one language on the same computer by showing you a keyboard for another language on your screen. You might use Visual Keyboard when you change your keyboard layout from one language to another. When you change keyboard layouts, the characters you see as you type might not correspond with your keyboard. Visual Keyboard lets you see the keyboard for the language you've switched to on your screen so that you can either click the keys on your screen or see the correct keys to press to enter text.
Displaying Greek text on a browser
In order for the Greek to be correctly
displayed in a browser you must ensure that the <HEAD>
section of the source code contains the following tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1253">
or
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8">
if you want to use Unicode encoding.
GREEK FONTS LINKS
How to view print and type in Greek for all platforms
from Hellenic Resources Network
http://www.hri.org/fonts
Greek fonts
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Greek3.html
Adding Greek fonts
http://langintro.com/greek/common/howto.htm
Dealing with Greek Characters
in Computers
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/greek-zvr.html
LINGUIST
List 11.2285, Word
Processing in Greek
POLYTONIC GREEK FONTS
Free Greek fonts by Magenta (Canonica is polytonic)
Unicode
Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web
Πως
θα εγκατασταθεί το πολυτονικό πληκτρολόγιο σε Windows
2000
(750050) - Στα Windows 2000 υπάρχει η δυνατότητα εγκατάστασης
πολυτονικού πληκτρολογίου.
Πώς
θα εγκατασταθεί το πολυτονικό πληκτρολόγιο στα Windows
XP
(750106) - Το άρθρο αυτό περιγράφει τη διαδικασία
εγκατάστασης του πολυτονικού πληκτρολογίου στα Windows
XP Home Edition ή στα Windows XP Professional Edition.
How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Windows XP
Polytonic Greek is not a language itself but rather a representation form of the Greek Language. It is named Polytonic due to the use of multiple (poly-) diacritic marks, as opposed to Monotonic that uses a single (mono-) diacritic mark... download 1MB Word file
Χρήση πολυτονικών στα Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
(750052) - Οι εκδόσεις των Microsoft Windows (εκδόσεις
2000/XP) υποστηρίζουν πολυτονική Ελληνική γραφή (ψιλή,
δασεία, περισπωμένη, υπογεγραμμένη, βαρεία, οξεία, κλπ.)
και ακολουθεί το επίσημο Unicode(i) πρότυπο για τους ελληνικούς
πολυτονικούς χαρακτήρες ...
Greek polytonic keyboard layout by
Microsoft and by
ellopos (You need Internet Explorer to see it).
Λήψη γραμματοσειρών (πολυτονικών και μονοτονικών) καθώς
και οδηγών πληκτρολογίου για πολυτονικά
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