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How Does One Get Greek with Vowel-Signs?

2008-02-02
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    I do a lot of text concordances using Simple Concordance Program and blessed Notepad + + . I want to branch out to Greek, but am having trouble getting "squares" for Greek letters with vowel-signs/diacritical-marks. What need I do to get the properly accented Greek vowels?

    Please do not tell me the answer in hard-core "Geeky" language; I am pretty green to such discussion, and do my best to maneuver with Notepad + + in doing English texts and Latin "with a minimum of the hard stuff" as my guide.

    --Vernon Lynn Stephens
    freethink@insightbb.com

     
    • Demetris

      Demetris - 2008-02-04

      You need a font that has such characters, that is, a font with polytonic Greek. In Notepad++, go to Settings, Style Configurator, Font style, and start scrolling until you find one. (The view in Notepad++ is updated in real time.)

      If you don't have such fonts that work with Notepad++, here is one that does and is free:

      http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download

      Get one of these two:

      dejavu-lgc-fonts-ttf-2.23.zip
      dejavu-fonts-ttf-2.23.zip

      The first one has just Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. The second supportes some other scripts as well.

      Greetings,
      Demetris