Keyboard version 1.

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Manual version 1.5
Prepared by Vincent M. Setterholm,
Logos Research Systems, Inc.
Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2007, 2010

Installation

Windows 7 /
Windows Vista:

Windows XP:

The Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard is designed for Windows 7,

Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 operating
systems. Though not tested for Windows NT 4.0, this keyboard may
function in that environment as well.
The Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard should work with any
Unicode compliant Greek font, though certain fonts may be missing
certain characters.
1. Run the kbdlbgr\setup.exe file. On Windows Vista, no
additional set-up is required, unless you have a previous Greek
keyboard installed at the Greek (Greece) locale, in which case
you may wish to remove the old keyboard in the Clock, Region
and Language Options dialog of the Control Panel.
1. Log in as an Administrator.
2. Run keyboard installer. The keyboard is installed by running
the kbdlbgr\setup.exe file. (You can verify if the keyboard is
already installed by going to the Control Panel | Add or
Remove Programs and looking for 'Logos Biblical Greek
Keyboard' on your list of installed programs.)
3. Modify language input settings. The newly installed
Keyboard must be associated with the Greek input locale. Go to
Control Panel | Regional and Language Options | click the
Languages tab | and click the Details box. In the Installed
Services pane, check to see if Greek is installed. If Greek is
currently installed, look at the keyboard it is mapped to. If
Greek is already mapped to Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard,
then your association is already installed. All other users click
the Add button | select Greek from the Input Language dropdown | check the Keyboard layout/IME box (this may be
checked automatically) | choose Logos Biblical Greek
Keyboard from the drop-down list | click OK | click Apply |
click OK | click Apply.

Windows 2000:

1. Log in as an Administrator.
2. Run keyboard installer. The keyboard is installed by running
the kbdlbgr\setup.exe file. (You can verify if the keyboard is
already installed by going to the Control Panel | Add or
Remove Programs and looking for 'Logos Biblical Greek
Keyboard' on your list of installed programs.)
3. Install support files for Greek. Go to Control Panel |
Regional and Language Options and under the General tab,
in the Language Settings for the System box, check Greek if

it is not already checked, and click Apply. You may be

prompted to reboot the system.

4. Modify language input settings. The newly installed

Keyboard must be associated with the Greek language input
locale. Go to Control Panel | Regional Options | Input
Locales | Click Add | Select Greek as an input locale | under
Keyboard layout/IME choose Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard
| click OK | Click Apply | Click OK. Follow any onscreen
instructions.
Hot Keys:

Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000 support the LeftAlt+Shift hot

key to switch through a list of input locales. You may reassign
this hot key, or assign custom hot keys for switching directly to
Greek (or any other input locale) in the Region and Language
Options of the Control Panel; Consult your operating system
documentation for assistance.

Uninstallation

Because Microsoft is fairly protective of regional and language

settings, if you need to install a newer version of this keyboard,
you may need to manually uninstall the old version - future
installers may not be able to upgrade your current set-up.
Uninstallation procedures are as follows:
1. Close all applications that might be using the Greek input
locale.
2. In your Regional Options, remove the Logos Biblical Greek
Keyboard from the association with the Greek Input Locale.
(See step 3 in the installation instructions for your operating
system for the location of this dialog.)
3. Go to Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs | click on
Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard | and click Remove.

Alphabet

The main design goal of the Logos Biblical Greek Keyboard is

to facilitate easy input of Biblical Greek on a QWERTY
keyboard by placing Greek characters on their most logical
English phonetic equivalents. Because there is no one-to-one
equivalency across the alphabets, there will be some letters that
are placed on QWERTY keys based on similarity in glyph
shapes and a few placements that are more or less arbitrary.
A phonetic relationship between English and Greek has
always been preserved where possible similar shapes are
never matched when a better phonetic option is available. For

example, the xsi is placed on x, its closest phonetic equivalent,

rather than reserving x for chi, which looks like an x. Chi is
placed on the letter c, because in English, the letter c can be a
hard sound similar to k, making it a logical phonetic placement
(k being already used by kappa).
However, since there are two e class vowels in Greek,
the epsilon and the eta, the eta is assigned to h, since the capital
form of that letter looks much like a capital H.
The following table shows how letters with similar
sounds have been assigned:

Greek Letter
epsilon
eta
tau
theta
kappa
chi
xsi
omicron
omega
pi
phi
psi
upsilon
sigma
final sigma

Assignment based on:

phonetics
glyph
e
h
t
q
k
c
x
o
w
p
f
y
u
s

arbitrary

Breathing
marks

For breathing marks and accents, an attempt was made to find a

visually similar key to encode the mark on. The rough and
smooth breathing marks are placed on the [ and ] keys, with the
direction of the bracket corresponding to the shape of the
breathing mark.
Thus the rough breathing mark is encoded with [ , and
the smooth breathing mark is encoded by ].

Accents

To make the accent assignments easy to remember, the upwards

slanting acute accent has been assigned to the forward slash
key, /. The downward sloping grave accent has been assigned
to the backslash key, \. The circumflex accent often looks like
a tilde in many Greek hands, so it has been assigned to the tilde.
However, for ease of entry, the circumflex has also been
assigned to the equal sign =, so that this common accent can
be entered without the use of the shift key.

Iota subscript
and other
diacritical
marks

The iota subscript is located on j. (Assigned so for the historical

relationship between i and j, and because of the close proximity
between the letters on the keyboard.)
The diaeresis mark is placed on the reverse prime key,
`.
The breve and the macron are sometimes used to
encode whether a vowel is short or long. These are not common
characters in biblical literature, so the assignments are rather
arbitrary, but easily reachable on the shift state. The
Exclamation mark, ! (Shift+1) encodes a macron and the @
(Shift+2) symbol encodes a breve.
A combining overline is often used in manuscripts to
indicate some form of abbreviation. Many otherwise excellent
Greek fonts do not support this character, but the keyboard
encodes it with the plus + key, (Shift+=).

On the ordering
of marks

There is a proper order for encoding marks in polytonic Greek.

Marks are encoded from inside to outside and from left to right.
Thus a dieresis mark should be entered before a circumflex,
because the circumflex is positioned on top (or outside) the
diaeresis mark. A breathing mark is encoded before any accent,
because they appear beneath a circumflex and to the left of an
acute or a grave. Marks only clash when they exist in the same
plane, so an iota subscript should never clash with an acute
accent, because one is below the letter and the other above, so in
this case, the keying order doesnt matter.
Some Greek keyboards have keys assigned for
encoding the various combinations of marks possible, so that
the order is always correct. However, memorizing all of those
combined mark positions is quite cumbersome, and the use of
various shift states to encode them is also not easy. By
remembering the inside-to-out and left-to-right rules, encoding
each common mark right off the unshifted state will be the
fastest entry method.

Archaic Greek
letters

On the AltGr shift state (accessed with the Right Alt key, or
with the combination of Ctrl+Alt though note that certain
applications work with the Right Alt, but dont respect Ctrl+Alt
because they trap the Control key) can be found a number of
archaic Greek letters, again placed on phonetic equivalents as
much as possible. Shift+AltGr accesses the capital forms of the
same.

Punctuation

The most common Greek punctuation marks can be entered

from the unshifted state. In addition, many different forms of
punctuation marks, including a full range of different forms of

quotation marks, are spread out across the various shift states.
The proper code point for the apostrophe is 02bc, which
is mapped to the ' (apostrophe/single straight quote) key on the
keyboard. Some Greek fonts do not contain this character,
however, but 2019, the right single quote is available on
AltGr+'. (Note that the behavior of 2019 and 02bc are different
in applications relying on ICU code, so this character
substitution may be fine for display purposes, but unsatisfactory
for computational purposes relating to indexing or searching.)
Numbers

European numerals are available in the unshifted state.

Keyboard Images

Unshifted State

Shift State

AltGr State
(Right Alt key or Ctrl+Alt)

Shift+AltGr State