SophoKeys for Mac
Write Ancient Greek on your Mac.
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SophoKeys overview
SophoKeys provides an easy to use and standardized method for writing Ancient Greek on the Mac, taking advantage of the well-known Beta Code of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Producing platform independent Unicode output, SophoKeys is a perfect tool perfect for the modern publishing world. Creating complex documents is simple, requiring no deadkeys or modifiers except shift -- simply type in Beta Code and watch your properly marked text appear on the screen, with live-updated cues as you type!
Alternatively, SophoKeys also comes with an Express layout, which enables very rapid text entry. Features include all common breathings, accents and other marks available with a single keystroke and vowel deadkeys - type accents after letters! Furthermore, SophoKeys Express allows capital letters to be entered in the simpler shift-letter format.
SophoKeys also comes with a Caps layout which is exactly like the standard layout, but removes the need for asterisk-based capitalization. The Caps layout supports capital letter entry with either the shift or caps-lock key, then allows accents and other marks to be typed afterwards.
Implementation details:
- Lower and upper case characters
- All accents
- All subscripts
- All breathing marks
- Macron, breve, and dieresis marks
- Most archaic characters
- All punctuation marks
- All TLG Beta Code quotation marks
- All TLG Beta Code parentheses
- 100 TLG Beta Code additional marks
- 100 TLG Beta Code additional characters
What’s new in version 1.3
Version 1.3:
View older SophoKeys versions - Updated documentation for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatibility
SophoKeys for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.3
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Aug 23 2005
Version: 1.2.2
I had to place the bundle file in the "Keyboard Layouts" folder in my computer's Library folder to get it to work. It didn't work in the "Keyboards" folder in my user's Library folder. I'm using Tiger.
Jan 20 2005
Version: 1.1
Please let me modify my previous review, with apologies to the author. My impression was that one particular Greek font, which doesn't work particularly well, was installed as part of the SophoKeys installation package, and most of my critical remarks were directed against that font. Now I have learned that these problems have nothing to do with SophoKeys, which seems to be a simple and straightforward keyboard remap that works as advertised.
Jan 17 2005
Version: 1.1
Why should someone nowadays learn to type polytonic with the betacode conventions instead of using a normal polytonic keyboard? Apart from GreekKeys there are some other ones available in the internet and there are rumors that Tiger will have a polytonic keyboard.
BetaCode was good and very useful 20 years ago for writing the huge numbers of ancient greek texts for TLG and Perseus.
Of course Benjamin should be congratulated for his effort as this is the first betacode keyboard for the mac and still it may be useful for some people. Keep on the nice work!
Jan 16 2005
Version: 1.1
Great way to get a polytonic Greek output and get used to using betacode at the same time! More and more I find that betacode is something that you had better master, but up to now I didn't use it because I wanted to see those Greek characters on my screen.
Best of both worlds.