Category : Printer Utilities
Archive   : LQMATRIX.ZIP
Filename : GREEK.DOC

GREEK CHARACTER FONT "GREEK.LQN"

William S. J. Moorhead
P.O. Box 677
Oskaloosa IA 52577
(515) 673-9320

Font copyright (c) 1989 by William S. J. Moorhead. All rights
reserved.

Permission is hereby given for non-commercial, non-profit, academic
or religious use of this font by registered users of the "LQMATRIX"
set of programs (distributed as shareware and copyright by J. David
Sapir, Jimmy Paris Software, 906 Old Farm Road, Charlottesville VA
22903), with which this font is designed to be used.

The purpose of this font of Greek characters is to enable writers to
include Greek words or quotations in documents to be printed on the
Epson LQ-series of 24-pin dot matrix printers (such as the LQ-850).
Because many of the usual business symbols on the standard keyboard
are replaced in this font by accents, breathing-marks, etc., this
font would probably be awkward for word-processing in modern Greek.
It is intended for scholars in the fields of New Testament studies,
Greek patristic studies, or classical Greek literature, history, or
philosophy, who are writing in English (or some other roman-alphabet
language) and want to refer to Greek words or make brief quotations
of classical or Koine Greek texts in Greek orthography.

The keyboard equivalents for most of the letters are fairly
straightforward. The font includes both upper- and lower-case
letters.

A = alpha
B = beta
G = gamma
D = delta
E = epsilon
Z = zeta
H = eta
J = theta
I = iota
K = kappa
L = lambda
M = mu
N = nu
X = xi
O = omicron
P = pi
R = rho
S = sigma (lower-case "c" is used for terminal sigma)
T = tau
U = upsilon
2
F = phi


Q = chi
Y = psi
W = omega
C = the "C"-shaped upper-case sigma
c = the lower-case terminal sigma
V = vau (an archaic letter, used as a numeral)
v = digamma (an archaic letter = vau)
{ = koppa (an archaic letter, used as a numeral)
} = sampi (an archaic letter, used as a numeral)

The following keys produce punctuation marks, accents, diacritical
markings, and other special characters. They may require use of the
backspace function on the printer. The ASCII code for "backspace" is
"8"; how you send this code to the printer from within your document
depends upon your word-processor. (In Microsoft Word, for example,
you simply send -keypad8.)

Here is the table of punctuation, etc.:

! = iota subscript
@ = copyright symbol (not Greek but useful!) ]
# = diaeresis (where two vowels are not a diphthong)
$ = smooth-breathing & acute accent combination
% = smooth-breathing & grave accent combination
^ = smooth-breathing & circumflex accent combination
& = rough-breathing & circumflex accent combination
* = acute accent
( = left parenthesis
) = right parenthesis
_ = long mark (use over vowels to show vowel quantity)
- = hyphen
+ = rough-breathing & acute accent combination
= = rough-breathing & grave accent combination
~ = circumflex accent
` = grave accent
[ = left bracket
] = right bracket
: = colon (the raised dot)
; = also the colon (the raised dot)
" = rough-breathing on initial aspirated vowels
' = smooth-breathing on initial non-aspirated vowels
? = question mark (looks like our semicolon)
/ = slash
. = period (full stop)
, = comma
< = left angle-bracket
> = right angle-bracket
| = vertical line
\ = backslash

If you download "GREEK.LQN" and then print the file "KEYBOARD.DOC" (in
3
letter-quality mode) you will have a guide to the keyboard layout for
that font. (This will also work for any other special font.)



This font looks somewhat better when printed at 12 characters per
inch (i.e. 10-pitch) than at 10 characters per inch (i.e. 12-pitch
[confusing, isn't it?]).

You may also prefer to format this font as "italic" if your word-
processor will do so; it looks nice that way.