Ancient Greek fonts

Rubensgns wrote:

How do I load a Greek font into Pages for Ipad? Without this the IPad is useless for me.

The current iPad already has Unicode Greek fonts and you can type Greek in Pages or any other app by just activating the Greek keyboard in Settings > General > Keyboards. What exactly is not working for you?

You should also have no problem displaying Ancient or polytonic Greek. To type however you would have to use a bluetooth hardware keyboard. Or use an app or make a custom layout with UniKey or Unicode Maps.

I have documents in sword using Laser Zgreek II for Windows. I now have an iPad2. I installed the Zgreek keyoard using settings. My documents do not show the Greek in Pages. Will installation of Unicode Greek cure this? If so how do I install it. I have alo ordered a Bluetooth keyboard.

williamfromhobart wrote:

I have documents in sword using Laser Zgreek II for Windows.

That's unfortunate, that is no doubt the old legacy ascii font encoding. Most users have switched to Unicode some years ago. Perhaps the company that makes that stuff offers a conversion tool?

I don't understand how you could install a "zgreek" keyboard on an iPad -- did you jailbreak the device? If you did jailbreak, then perhaps you can install the old legacy fonts as well... Users are not normally able to install either keyboards or fonts on an iOS device.

All OS X and iOS devices come with everything already installed for Unicode Greek for a long time now. You can type Unicode Greek in Pages by just activating the Greek keyboard layout provided by Apple via Settings > General > Keyboards.

PS Here is a converter

http://www.linguistsoftware.com/lgkc.htm

I only meant I had activated the Greek keyboard supplied by Apple. Thanks for the conversion. If I convert my document to Unicode then transfer it to pages you think the Greek font will show up? I will try it and report back Sorry for the typos. Still learning the iPad keyboard.

williamfromhobart wrote:

If I convert my document to Unicode then transfer it to pages you think the Greek font will show up?

Yes. To put it into Pages you will probably have to copy/paste or have it in one of the formats which Pages can open (.pages, .doc, .docx, .txt).

I bought the LaserGrekk II converter and converted my document to Unicode using the OdysseaUBSU fonts. When I emailed it to my iPad and opened it in Pages there was no Greek font. I had saved the document as a .doc. The pages app said there were two fonts in the document it did not support What do I try next?

williamfromhobart wrote:

When I emailed it to my iPad and opened it in Pages there was no Greek font. I had saved the document as a .doc.

Email me your .doc (tom at bluesky dot org) and I will see what the problem might be. The iPad will of course not have that particular font, but normally it should just substitute another.

Here's an earlier thread on this issue:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2387345?start=0&tstart=0

Matt

Converting the Laser Greek Odyessea UBS font into Odyssea UBS Unicode enabled me to see the Greek in my iPad using Pages. The final test will come when my wireless keyboard arrives.

Without a "keyboard viewer" on the iPad, it may be hard to figure out which key does what in the Greek Polytonic layout. Here is a chart:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/GreekPoly.jpg