Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Greg Farough]

On Thu, Sep 19 2024, Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org> wrote:

> Hello emacs-devel,
>
>
> Emacs offers an option to write in Greek/Hellenic using
> set-input-method, but it seems there is no support for the polytonic
> system despite mentions of classical Greek support.
>
> To use polytonic Greek in GNU Guix System, with Sway, I currently use
> this configuration:
>
>     input "type:keyboard" {
>           xkb_layout us,gr
>           xkb_options grp:win_space_toggle
>           xkb_variant altgr-intl,polytonic
>     }
>
> Unless I'm missing something and there is already built in support, I
> would also suggest having a greek-polytonic-mode.  This mode
> automatically changes text written in Greek into polytonic Greek.

I've always used the "greek-babel" input method, and have never
encountered any classical Greek I couldn't easily type in with that.

-g