Hello! I have installed the Greek Classical keeboard. I can type the letters, but I can’t have the diacritics such as accents on the letters : when I try typing them, they’re next not the letter, not on it. I’m working on a laptop with an azerty keeboard. Would you mind help me please ?
Hi Solene. Welcome to the Keyman community site. I’m wondering if you have a font that supports Greek. Do you know which font you are using? Sometimes it’s just a font issue where the combining marks do not position correctly.
Also, are you typing the accents after the vowel? This page describes how to use the keyboard:
Unfortunately, the keyboard does specifically say it works best with a QWERTY layout. The documentation claims it is a mnemonic keyboard which would allow you to use any layout, but when I look at the code, the mnemonic statement is commented out.
If you are comfortable playing around with the settings, you could try changing your Base layout to QWERTY, but I wouldn’t try that if you aren’t comfortable with a little uncertainty.
To do that you would go to the Keyman Configuration window, select Options, scroll down to Advanced, select Base Keyboard, and choose English (US). This will change your keyboard from Azerty to Qwerty. I cannot remember if this is a system-wide change or just a change for when you are using a Keyman keyboard.
Hi Lorna!
Thank you so much for replying !
Unfortunately, after trying what you said about shifting the Base layout to qwerty, it didn’t work.
Concerning the font, I can’t get to understand what you mean (English is not my maternal language…) : is it things such as “Arial”, “Times New Roman”, etc ? If it is that, which one do you advise ? I tried shifting from “Times New Roman” to “Arial”, but it didn’t change anything.
I knew already I had to type the accents after the vowel, so I’m certain the problem is not there.
Both Arial and Times New Roman display properly for me in Word. The only other things I can think of is to ask you what application you are using?
Also, what is your operating system?
Thirdly, if you copy and paste this text into the application, does it display correctly?
ἁὀῐ
I’m using OpenOffice Writer, and Windows. Do you think it’s the fault of the application ?
I just tried copying and pasting your greek word, and it worked.
I’ve just tried using LibreOffice Writer. It automatically selected Liberation Serif as the font and it is displaying fine. It didn’t automatically select Greek as the language, but it still displayed correctly. Check which font you have selected and then then make sure the Greek language is selected and see if that helps.
Unfortunately I don’t have OpenOffice installed to test that. Some of the older apps like OpenOffice may require you to turn on complex rendering. I don’t know how to do that.
Well… it didn’t work. I really don’t understand. But thank you very much for helping !!
Hello @Solene,
I have tried typing the Greek Classical keyboard on OpenOffice Writer and it seems to be working as expected. I’m using Windows 11, Keyman 18.0.236 and Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15.
To type the second phrase, I followed the instruction in help document that Lorna mentioned.
Can you make sure that you are using the latest version of Keyman and OpenOffice?
Thanks!
@Solene Does it work if you type in Notepad?