Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Thanos Apollo]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:


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> For a classical philologist (I am a classical philologist)

That's interesting, if possible I'd appreciate you providing some input

- Do you use archaic Greek letters, such as digamma or koppa?  Is this
  essential to your workflow?

- Do you use ligature letters, such as stigma?  Is this essential to
  your workflow?  

- What are the reasons you prefer greek-ibycus4 over greek-babel (except
  beta code).

> more than enough. For those who dedicate themselves to epigraphy,
> papyrology or linguistics, it probably won't be enough. What I mean is
> that with ibycus4 anyone, with the necessary patience, could write all
> the tragedies of Aeschylus in GNU Emacs. Which makes it a legitimate
> input method for writing polytonic Greek.

I cannot speak for papyrologist or hardcore linguists.  I just want to
be able to write my mother tongue & do my work in Emacs, similarly to
how I did in proprietary software, either that's writing the Gospels,
replying to an email or chatting in IRC.

You can type English texts using a Spanish dvorak keyboard, but I
wouldn't call that keyboard as an English keyboard.  It has extra
letters that are not part of the English alphabet & the keys are not
what your average user expects.

A greek-polytonic input method should be 1:1 compatible with greek (same
keys for letters & oxia), just with the addition of extra tonous,
pneumata & ypogegrammeni.

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Thanos Apollo
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