Re: Writting Greek in Emacs

[Thanos Apollo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

[...]
> I proposed to consider having a separate input method for Coptic
> because I understood your comments about that as meaning that having
> both Coptic and Greek in the same input method causes technical
> difficulties that might be hard to resolve.  If there's no problem
> having both languages supported by a single input method, there's no
> problem to do that, either.  We already have similar multi-lingual
> support in input methods like latin-*.
>

Oh my bad.  There is already a separate Coptic input method.  It causes
technical difficulties if someone wants to write only Greek using
polytonic or monotonic, but I do not think that's what those input
methods are meant for.

A Greek Polytonic keyboard for Emacs would look like this:

·~: 1!  2@  3#  4$  5%  6^  7&  8*  9(  0)  -_  =+  
   `῾  ῀ι  εΕ  ρΡ  τΤ  υΥ  θΘ  ιΙ  οΟ  πΠ  [{  ]}
    αΑ  σΣ  δΔ  φΦ  γΓ  ηΗ  ξΞ  κΚ  λΛ  ΄᾿  ’¨  \|
     ζΖ  χΧ  ψΨ  ωΩ  βΒ  νΝ  μΜ  ,<  .>  /;

The current Greek (monotonic) input method in Emacs is this:

`~ 1!  2@  3#  4$  5%  6^  7&  8*  9(  0)  -_  =+  
   ;:  ςΣ  εΕ  ρΡ  τΤ  υΥ  θΘ  ιΙ  οΟ  πΠ  [{  ]}
    αΑ  σΣ  δΔ  φΦ  γΓ  ηΗ  ξΞ  κΚ  λΛ  ΄¨  '"  \|
     ζΖ  χΧ  ψΨ  ωΩ  βΒ  νΝ  μΜ  ,<  .>  /?

This way users accustomed to Greek keyboards will feel right at home &
one can write Greek monotonic using the polytonic keyboard with no
issue.  Some might not even notice the difference, since this is similar
to how iPad's digital keyboards deal with Greek.

When adding a new Greek input method, I'd recommend not deviating too
far off of the current "greek" input method.

-- 
Thanos Apollo
https://thanosapollo.org

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