Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

On 10/01/2013 09:21 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:11:21 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> dijo:
>
> > A long time ago when I used Gnome it was trivially easy. But how in the
> > heck do you install a second keyboard in Xfce?
> I finally found the answer here:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/pt7l4w2
>
> This sets up an icon (or text) in the Xfce panel. You can switch
> input languages by clicking on the icon/text, or you can assign a
> hotkey shortcut to switch languages.
>
> Having done that I can now enter Greek in a LO Writer document, or any
> other application on the computer. I assigned a shortcut so that I can
> switch back and forth between US English and Greek as I'm typing.
>
> At first I was perplexed because some of the keys seemed to give me the
> Greek glyphs that sound similar to the English letters, e.g., t gives
> me a tau, but the s only gave me upper- and regular lowercase sigma, not
> the word-ending sigma. Later I found an image of a real Greek keyboard
> and discovered that the word-ending sigma is the w key. I need to print
> myself a picture of a real Greek keyboard and post it above my monitor
> for reference until I get the hang of touch typing in Greek.
if there is an itrans version then you just type like English and it 
translates it to the equivalent sound in Greek. I use this for Telugu 
and it's pretty amazing.


Best,
Joel

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