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Polytonic Greek keyboard for MacOS

I'm taking a class in Biblical Greek and am struggling with using accents with Greek Polytonic keyboard. I would expect long pressing an h would provide accent, grave, umlaut, iota subscript, etc. But it only gives the accent.


I was trying to input "thi" (the dative case of the definite article) with accents and subscript, ie τῇ. I finally figured out that I needed to type "t[{h" in order to produce the desired characters with accents. It is hardly intuitive.


So I hoping to find either an alternative on-screen keyboard for the Mac (I've tried agk from the iPad, doesn't work) or a cheat sheet or assistive keyboard or any other options to make this easier. I can't be the only one struggling with this. So if you have a solution, what works for you?


Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Sep 30, 2023 6:49 AM

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Posted on Sep 30, 2023 9:00 AM

For Greek Polytonic, or any other keyboard, you can use the Keyboard Viewer to see which key does what, or input directly.


Use the Keyboard Viewer on Mac - Apple Support


Here is an example for Greek Polytonic. The keys with orange outlines are the keys for adding the accents.



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Polytonic Greek keyboard for MacOS

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