I can manage all diacritics except for the iota subscript. My laptop keyboard shares the vertical split line symbol with the grave symbol, and it is impossible to input it so that it becomes an iota subscript under a Greek vowel like omega. Is there a way to work round this?
Welcome to the community, @Sandra_Cairns
May we know what is the layout of your keyboard? Is there a | key to the right of the ] on your keyboard that you can use?
I can type it like this: SHIFTw + | = ῼ
Could you try Alt Gr+6 or Alt Gr+< to see if the vertical bar appear?
Here is the technical information of the Greek Classical keyboard.
Let us know!
Thank you for the fast response.
Unfortunately, none of these work on my keyboard. I typed in a reply earlier, but most of it seems not to be there anymore, so I shall try again.
My keyboard has the key with a reverse slash in lower case and a vertical line in upper case, to the left of z, but typing ω| just produces that, not ῳ.
I have discovered that I can type the broken vertical line with altgr+ctrl+`, but that still only gives me ω¦.
All the long Greek vowels can have an iota subscript in combination with other diacritical marks, so I really need to find a fast way of dealing with this. (I can of course just enter them, in Word, by Symbol, Insert, but that is very clumsy.) I have a new computer with Windows 11, and it won’t allow me to use the same keyboard layout and shortcuts that worked on Windows 10!
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Update on Greek iota subscript. I found it! On my keyboard it is ~, the shift of # (to the right of the ’ @ key). In Greek Classical that key gives | (lc uc), but the key to the left of z which actually has those characters on it does the same, and when I used that other key, it didn’t produce the diacritics.
So I can now type ῲ, and I am happy!
(I am using a Lenovo Yoga Slim laptop, which has the English QWERTY layout, but not exactly as on a bigger keyboard.)
Thank you again. I shall find Greek Classical very helpful, once I am used to it.
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Hi Sandra.
If you go to KeymanWeb.com and click in the white box, it should show you an on-screen keyboard with the Greek letters in black and the underlying US English keys in light blue.
If I type the “w” key it gives me a lowercase omega.
If I then type the “|” key from the shift layer, it puts an iota subscript under the omega.
I can do that either by clicking on the keys in the keyboard diagram (“w”, “Shift”, “|”), or by typing on the physical keyboard (“w”, Shift+“|”).
What do you get when you try what I’ve described above? I suspect that you have a different keyboard than a US English one, so I’m wondering how we can get this keyboard to work on your computer.
Thanks for your patience!
David
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Ha! I should have checked before I posted my reply. I see you’ve already found how to type it. That’s great – happy typing!
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For future reference, see also:
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@Marc When I go to the KMKB0072 link it takes me to https://help.keyman.com/knowledge-base/?id=72. When I click on the “Associating Keyman Keyboard Layouts for Best Performance” link on that page, it goes to https://help.keyman.com/knowledge-base/kb0063.md whereas I would have expected to go to https://help.keyman.com/knowledge-base/?id=63.
Link fixed in https://github.com/keymanapp/help.keyman.com/pull/1508