Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Πιστιόλης Κωνσταντίνος wrote:
> 
> In that page you propose:
> ...A font which includes all accent combinations for Classical Greek is,
> for instance, FreeSerif. The efont bitmap fonts (for xterm) also have  
> them...
> 
> Which may or may not be valid depending which symbol your keymap produces
> for acute (oxia or tonos). FreeSerif has a different symbol for 'tonos'
> and 'oxia' and ancient greek is probably not viewed correctly if someone
> types using the gr(polytonic) keymap with el_GR.UTF-8 locale
>
You are right of course. But this (I am sorry) is in the 'keyboard
input' section of my page, which I have not updated yet, and I am still
not quite sure what it should say. Should there, or should there not, be
input methods for both 'oxia' and 'tonos', given that they are
'officially' the same? I mean, what should be the advice to the classicists?

My request for comment was, so far, only on the new 'font' section of
the document, section 4.5.

Regards, Jan



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