
Ancient Greek Language Support
for LibreOffice / OpenOffice
Version: 1.6-beta8
General Settings ^
The first tab of the "Settings dialog" (shown below), presents the general settings.
The "General Settings" tab on Windows 8.1
These options are:
- Convert to Basic char. on file load
- When this option is set, AncientGreek will perform an Extended to Basic characters conversion right after a document is loaded, following TLG recommendation for precomposed characters (TLG Guide to Unicode Precomposed Forms, p. 9).
- Save file after conversion
- When this option is set, the file will be saved after the Extended to Basic characters conversion is done. It is available when the previous one is set.
- Show help in native language
- When this option is set, AncientGreek will display the off-line help pages in the user's native language, provided they exist. Otherwise, the english pages will be shown.
- This option is only valid for the full AncientGreek setup, not the no-doc.
AncientGreek currently partially supports only Greek and Italian native help pages. Hope more will be added in the future...
- Import / Export Configuration
These two buttons provide the possibility to save AncientGreek current configuration to a file, or load it from a file.
Import / Export Configuration ^
As AncientGreek evolves, the number of its parameters increase, making it harder to keep a consistent configuration on different machines. Exporting and importing the configuration is the only way to go.
Exporting
To export your current configuration, click on the icon. Then your configuration will be saved in a simple text file called "AncientGreek_Configuration_[current date and time].txt" in your home directory.
If everything goes well, you will get a message like the one shown in the image below.
If an error occurs you will get the following message.
This is something that should not normally happen; it most probably means that your system is in an unstable state (a full disk or file system for example). You should restart the program and try again (don't forget to exit the Quickstarter if it's running); if you get the same message again, you should restart your computer or take any appropriate action to resolve the problem.
Importing
To import a previously saved configuration, you have to click on the icon and select the file which contains the new settings. AncientGreek will check the specified file and load any parameters found in it.
If everything goes well, you will get a message like the one shown in the image below.
If an error occurs while reading the file, you will get the following message.
This is something that should not normally happen; it most probably means that your system is in an unstable state (too many files opened, too many programs running, etc.). You should restart the program and try again (don't forget to exit the Quickstarter if it's running); if you get the same message again, you should restart your computer or take any appropriate action to resolve the problem.
AncientGreek will check the assignment of Ibycus Keyboard Layout toggling shortcut; if the supplied shortcut is invalid, the shortcut will be reseted to its devault value - Alt-Ctrl-SPACE (⌥⌘SPACE for Mac OS), displaying a message similar to the following:
If any other an error occurs while checking the file's containts, you will get a message reporting the error. This is probably because you have manually edited the file and altered it in such a way that it's unusable. The thing to keep in mind here is to restart the program if asked.