Which Windows version

Peter_Constable at sil.org Peter_Constable at sil.org
Tue Dec 31 16:54:16 EST 2002



On 12/31/2002 02:30:52 PM Jonathan Robie wrote:

>I have to confess my stupidity here. I have XP Professional. I installed
>the polytonic Greek keyboard, and I'm looking at the maps, but I don't see
>what keys I am supposed to press for common combinations, eg an omikron
>with rough breathing, or the various accents for vowels.

You can find MS keyboard layouts documented at
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp. This
documentation is imperfect, though: they show what keys are dead keys, but
they don't accurately indicate what diacritics they generate. Here are most
of the details:

acute:  q + vowel key (semi colon followed by whatever vowel key)
grave: ] + vowel key
circumflex: [ + vowel key

diaeresis: : + vowel key (iota or upsilon)

smooth breath mark: ' + vowel key
rough breath mark: " + vowel key

smooth breath mark + acute: / + vowel key
rough breath mark + acute: ? + vowel key

smooth breath mark + grave: \ + vowel key
rough breath mark + grave: | + vowel key

smooth breath mark + circumflex: = + vowel key
rough breath mark + circumflex: + + vowel key

iota subscript: { + vowel key

iota subscript + smooth breath mark + acute: right alt-/ + vowel key
iota subscript + rough breath mark + acute: right alt-? + vowel key

iota subscript + smooth breath mark + grave: right alt-\ + vowel key
iota subscript + rough breath mark + grave: right alt-| + vowel key

iota subscript + smooth breath mark + circumflex: right alt-=+ vowel key
iota subscript + rough breath mark + circumflex: right alt-+ + vowel key

(I've gotta run, so don't have time to document other combinations, e.g.
diaeresis + acute.)



- Peter


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