
Ancient Greek Language Support
for LibreOffice / OpenOffice
Version: 1.6-beta8
Legacy Encodings Settings ^
The second tab of the "Settings dialog" (shown below), presents Legacy Encodings settings.
The "Legacy Encoding" tab on Mac OS
Available options are:
- Beta Code
- Capital Letters Only (TLG)
- Enabling this option will make the converter produce capital ASCII characters, when converting text to Beta Code, complying to TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae). Otherwise, small ASCII characters will be used.
- Use simple sigma
- This option has to do with the conversion of the Final Sigma (ς) and the Lunate Sigma Symbol (c), when converting text to Beta Code. Both of these letters can be converted to "S", but according to the The TLG® Beta Code Manual 2013, the Final Sigma (ς) can also be converted to "S2" and the Lunate Sigma Symbol (c) to "S3" ("*S3" for capital). So, when this option is enabled, the simple conversion ("S") will be used; if it's disabled, the complex one will be used ("S2" and "S3" respectively).
- Exclude lunate sigma
- Enabling the previous option will result in eliminating any lunate sigma found in the document. In order to prevent this from happening, one can enable this option.
- Simplify stand-alone diacritics
- Enabling this option will vastly increase the readability of raw Beta Code encoded text. All stand-alone diacritics will be encoded using their simple form; for example, Smooth breathing (psili), which is often used as an apostrophe too, would normally be converted to "%30", so the phrase "ἀλλ᾽ ὦ φίλη Λάκαινα" would become "A)LL%30 W)= FI/LH *LA/KAINA". When this option is enabled, this would become "A)LL) W)= FI/LH *LA/KAINA".
- WinGreek
- Greek Font Edition
- WinGreek provides the following fonts: "Greek Regular" and "GreekWG Regular".
- "Greek Regular" (or simply "Greek") comes in two editions; the original 1993 edition and the 2000 edition, which is somewhat different from its predecessor and codes more letters as well.
- Both fonts are presented to the users as "Greek" (or "Greek Regular"), when installed, and it's up to the user to distinguish between them.
- AncientGreek provides the "Greek font selection" window shown below, to help the user select the right font edition that's installed.
- The selection done here will be automatically used in every WinGreek conversion, when "WinGreek font" is set to "Greek Font" and the "Font selection always permitted" option is unchecked.

The "Greek Font Edition Selection" dialog on Mac OS
- If Greek letters are displayed in the sample field (red letters on yellow background), then ed. 2000 is installed, so that is the entry that should be selected in the dialog. Otherwise, the 1993 edition should be selected.
If the "Greek (Greek Regular)" font is not installed at all, selecting the 2000 ed. would be the preferred choice.
- WinGreek font selection
- As already stated, WinGreek provides the following fonts: "Greek Regular" and "GreekWG Regular", so the question is: which one is going to be used when preforming a WinGreek conversion?
- AncientGreek provides the "WinGreek Font Selection" dialog, shown below, to help the user declare which font is to be used.

The "WinGreek Font Selection" dialog on Mac OS
- When "Greek font" is selected, the actual font that will be used is the one selected in "Greek Font Edition".
- Font selection always permitted
- Once both the "Greek Font Edition" and "WinGreek font" have been set, AncientGreek is able to perform a WinGreek conversion without asking about the fonts to use. In other words, AncientGreek is able to perform a WinGreek conversion automatically.
- Checking this option will force AncientGreek to always ask which font to use in the current WinGreek conversion.
- General Options
- Characters to convert to Unicode
- This option helps you define a set of characters which will be replaced by their alternative forms, every time a Legacy Encoding to Unicode conversion is performed. The difference between this alternate forms set and the Basic / Extended Greek characters set, is that in this case no form can be considered to be the correct one; one can use either form, but it would be nice to have just one form in use in a document for consistency's shake.
- When you click the
icon, the "Auto Character Conversion" dialog appears:

The "Auto Characters Conversion" dialog on Mac OS
Each of the available alternative form conversion can be selected or unselected; when selected, option "Reverse" is available as well, so that it's possible to reverse the conversion. For example, when "oxia (U+1FFD) to tonos (U+0384)" option is checked, every oxia will be converted to tonos. If "Reverse" is checked too, then every tonos will be converted to oxia, instead.
- Save file before conversion
- When this option is set, AncientGreek will save the document before starting any conversion (either Legacy Encoding to Unicode or Unicode to Legacy Encoding), so that it's easy to revert to the document's previous state, if the result of the conversion is not satisfactory.