geob@sphinx.uchicago.edu (george b walsh) (09/29/88)
The standard for classical Greek is SMK GreekKeys, available from SMK, 5760 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago, IL 60637. This system uses real "dead" keys, just like standard Apple fonts, which precisely locate accent marks over the alphabetic characters. (A back-spacing accent character can't distinguish between fat omega and skinny iota, for example, so the accents must be given a compromise location.) GreekKeys uses Apple's Script Manager to permit instant changes of keyboard layout -- one layout for modern European languages and another, specialized one for classical (and biblical) Greek including enough dead keys, located in easily remembered places, for all the accents. The GreekKeys standard is supported by major academic software, such as Harvard University's UNIX version of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae database.