Ancient Greek Language Support
for LibreOffice / OpenOffice

Ismini Encoding

Ismini is a method of representing, characters found in ancient Greek texts using ASCII characters.

It is based on the Ismini font, copyrighted by N. Goulandris, 1986-1993 and published by Altsys Metamorphosis: 20/03/1994, as a freeware package.

Download Ismini font ^

You will have to download the Ismini font in case

• You want to be able to read Ismini encoded text without converting it to Unicode
• You want to publish Ismini encoded documents or web pages

Ismini font

AncientGreek Ismini conversion Macros ^

I suggest saving your work before running either of these macros on a document (no text selection), so that reverting (Menu File / Reload) to it is possible, as Undoing may not be of much help, since a letter by letter substitution will take place resulting in way too many undo steps.

If any of these macros are executed without selecting any text, a warning message similar to the one shown in the following picture will appear.

Warning message on Windows 8.1

• IsminiToUnicode Macro

This macro converts text written in Ismini to Unicode (normal text that can be edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice).

• UnicodeToIsmini Macro

This macro converts text written in Unicode (normal text edited in LibreOffice / OpenOffice) to Ismini.

Using fullwidth characters ^

If the document (or selection) contains ASCII characters (English text), they will automatically be converted to the "fullwidth / halfwidth" characters, when text conversion from Unicode to Ismini is performed.

Ismini implementation ^

AncientGreek fully implements the encoding as shown in the following table.

* PUA code point

Note
Capital letters with diacritics are inserted using stand-alone diacritics followed by a capital letter. For example capital alpha with grave (Ὰ) is inserted as `A, capital rho with rough breathing (Ῥ) is inserted as \R, etc.