Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Greg Farough]

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

> Greg Farough <gregf@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 19 2024, Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org> wrote:
>>
> [...]
>>
>> I've always used the "greek-babel" input method, and have never
>> encountered any classical Greek I couldn't easily type in with that.
>>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, it seems that it does not have support for
> perispomeni (e.g ῶ) that we can do with "[" + "ω" in usual polytonic
> keyboards.  Psili, dasia, different types of periods, ypogegrammeni &
> varys tonos, seem to be missing as well.
>
> e.g phrase from Mathew (Bible) in Greek.
>
> 1.1 Βίβλος γενέσεως ᾽Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ υἱοῦ Δαυὶδ υἱοῦ ᾽Αβραάμ. 1.2
> ᾽Αβραὰμ ἐγέννησεν τὸν ᾽Ισαάκ, ᾽Ισαὰκ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν ᾽Ιακώβ, ᾽Ιακὼβ
> δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν ᾽Ιούδαν καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ
>
> There is support for some accent's in greek-babel input method, as well
> in other greek methods, but most of the greek accents are missing.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something with the keybindings?

The keybindings are quite different than polytonic input methods in
other programs. M-x describe-input-method covers them all.

For example, small omega with perispomeni in greek-babel is: "~" +
"w" = ῶ

These can be combined. So small alpha with dasia and perispomeni would
be: "<" + "~" + "a" = ἇ

Small rho with psili: ">" + "r" = ῤ

But maybe I'm missing something?

-g