Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Thanos Apollo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:02:18 +0300
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> >> 
>> >> έ́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́́
>> >
>> > Which problems do you see here?
>> 
>> It's not possible to stack accents of the same type in Greek.  There are
>> many grammatical rules that are ignored in most input methods that I've
>> checkout out, such as using specific accents in non vowels.
>
> But that is a problem for the user who is typing the sequence to
> solve.

Hmmm....  I guess we probably see this differently (literally).  I
understood the issue when reading this email in emacs-devel web archive.

I'm attaching an image for you to see what it usually looks like with
Iosevka Aile font.  In K9 the accents are even covering your own name, this is 
a bug,
most fonts do not support this and users should be able to easily type
"stacking" accents of the same type.

Depending on which greek input is used, the way to type accents is
different.  For example, in greek-polytonic that was recommended
previously, to add an oxia (΄), using ";" in us qwerty keyboards, you first
have to type the vowel & then press ";".  That's the opposite of how
Greek input methods work, we first type ";" (or the any other character
representing the accent(s) we want) and then the vowel.

You can try that by using the "greek" input method or by using
"setxkbmap gr" to see the differences with greek-polytonic in typing a
vowel with oxia.

greek-babel appears to support polytonic accents, but I haven't fully
tested it due to unfamiliarity with its keybindings.  I will start
working on a new greek-polytonic input method similar to what is
commonly used in proprietary software that most users are familiar
with. I'm attaching an image of the keybindings commonly used.



Cheers,

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Thanos Apollo
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