#SOPHOKEYS WINDOWS MANUAL#
#SOPHOKEYS WINDOWS WINDOWS 8.1#

This implementation does not realize the complete Beta Code 'charset', as described in The TLG ® Beta Code Manual 2013, but is limited to the following: If the document (or selection) contains ASCII characters (English text), they will automatically be converted to the ' fullwidth / halfwidth' characters, when text conversion from Unicode to Beta Code is performed. If you want to permanently set these parameters, please use AncientGreek Configuration dialog. The values set using this dialog will be valid for the current session only.

When this option is enabled, this would become ' A)LL ) W)= FI/LH *LA/KAINA'. All stand-alone diacritics will be encoded using their simple form for example, Smooth breathing (psili), which is often used as an apostrophe too, would normally be converted to ' %30', so the phrase ' ἀλλ ᾽ ὦ φίλη Λάκαινα' would become ' A)LL %30 W)= FI/LH *LA/KAINA'. So, when this option is enabled, the simple conversion (' S') will be used if it's disabled, the complex one will be used (' S2' and ' S3' respectively).Įnabling this option will vastly increase the readability of raw Beta Code encoded text. Both of these letters can be converted to ' S', but according to the The TLG ® Beta Code Manual 2013, the Final Sigma ( ς) can also be converted to ' S2' and the Lunate Sigma Symbol ( c) to ' S3' (' *S3' for capital). This option has to do with the conversion of the Final Sigma ( ς) and the Lunate Sigma Symbol ( c), when converting text to Beta Code. Otherwise, small ASCII characters will be used. When converting text to Beta Code the following options are available:Įnabling this option will make the converter produce capital ASCII characters, complying to TLG ( Thesaurus Linguae Graecae).

#SOPHOKEYS WINDOWS WINDOWS 8.1#

Warning message with Beta Code options on Windows 8.1 Beta Code options ^ If Unicode to Beta Code conversion is requested, the message dialog will also provide the possibility to alter Beta Code conversion options: This macro converts text written in Beta Code to Unicode (normal text that can be edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice). If this macro is executed without selecting any text, a warning message similar to the one shown in the following picture will appear. This macro converts text written in Unicode (normal text edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice) to Beta Code. I suggest saving your work before running either of these macros on a document (no text selection), so that reverting (Menu File / Reload) to it is possible, as Undoing may not be of much help, since a letter by letter substitution will take place resulting in way too many undo steps. AncientGreek Beta Code conversion Macros ^ Systems such as Sophokeys for typing Beta Code but producing Greek glyphs directly in the entered text (rather than when it is typeset or otherwise output) are increasingly popular, with the result that Beta Code, with some variations, has become a sort of universal default keymap for text entry in polytonic Greek. Beta Code can be easily converted to a variety of systems for display, most notably the Unicode. It has become the standard for encoding polytonic Greek and has also been used by a number of other projects such as the Perseus Project (which encodes all its Ancient Greek texts using Beta code), the Packard Humanities Institute, the Duke collection of Documentary Papyri, and the Greek Epigraphy Project at Cornell and Ohio State University. Packard in the late 1970s and adopted by Thesaurus Linguae Graecae in 1981. Its aim is to be not merely a romanization of the Greek alphabet, but to represent faithfully a wide variety of source texts including formatting as well as rare or idiosyncratic characters.īeta Code was developed by David W. Beta Code is a method of representing, using only ASCII characters, characters and formatting found in ancient Greek texts (and other ancient languages).

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