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Keyboard driver and polytonic
fonts for
Windows '98, '95, NT 4.0, Me, 2000, XP &
MS-WORD XP |
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The basic version of the ACCENTUATOR contains
five groups of Unicode polytonic fonts. These fonts cover the following
alphabets:
1. Greek monotonic.
2. Greek polytonic.
3. English.
4. Western European.
5. Eastern European.
6. Turkish.
The fonts contained in the basic version are the following:
MgAntique
UC Pol
Normal Bold Italic - Bold Italic.
MgAvantG
UC Pol
Normal Bold Italic - Bold Italic.
MgBodoni
UC Pol
Normal Bold Italic - Bold Italic.
MgFuture
UC Pol
Normal Bold Italic - Bold Italic.
MgOldTimes
UC Pol
Normal Bold Italic - Bold Italic
MAGENTA constantly enriches its fonts and new packages
which include polytonic fonts will be released in the near future. Please
keep visiting our pages in order to be kept up to date.

Ôhe options menu.

The main settings window.
The font conversion
window (allowing conversion from previous versions of the ACCENTUATOR
as well as from Apple Macintosh polytonic format.

The special characters and symbols window which can be inserted
to an MS-Word document.

The switch language window where you can switch the iinterface
language from Greek to English and vice-versa.
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The ACCENTUATOR for Word XP
is a new typing utility for Greek monotonic and polytonic texts.
Available for Windows '98, Windows '95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Me and
Windows 2000.
It works through MS-Word XP and it uses Unicode fonts.
This means that it follows the internationally accepted standard for the
Greek polytonic character set, as it was encoded by the Unicode
Consortium which is the definitive encoding standard permitting the
compatibiity in all platforms amongst fonts that are created by different
manufacturers .
At launch, the ACCENTUATOR launches
MS-Word XP. As you type a text, the ACCENTUATOR
replaces the characters with Greek polytonic or monotonic ones.
Polytonic typing is made very easy.
The consonants and the non-accented vowels are inserted in the same was
as in the monotonic system which you already use.
For each breathing, accent or combination of the two, the ACCENTUATOR
uses a certain key which can be defined by the user. When you press a
breathing or accent key no character is inserted. If following that you
press a vowel key then you will have a vowel with the breathing or the
accent you had chosen.
With the ACCENTUATOR, you can produce the following breathings,
accents and combinations:
1. Acute accent.
2. Smooth breathing & acute.
3. Smooth breathing & grave.
4. Smooth breathing & circumflex.
5. Rough breathing.
6. Rough breathing & acute.
7. Rough breathing & acute.
8. Rough breathing & circumflex.
9. Acute accent.
10. Grave accent.
11. Diaeresis.
12. Diaeresis & acute.
13. Diaeresis & grave.
14. Diaeresis & circumflex.
15. Long vowel.
16. Short vowel.
17. Circumflex.
18. Iota subscript.
19. Semicolon.
The above breathings, accents and combinations are produced according
to the rules that apply to vowel accentuation, including the "r" (rho)
with the grave or acute accent.
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OTHER FUNCTIONS
The ACCENTUATOR comes with a number of tools which
make it easy to customize it and facilitate the insertion of special characters
which are useful in Greek texts.
The extra functions are the following
Conversion of polytonic texts in older polytonic formats.
The ACCENTUATOR for MS-Word uses Unicode fonts. If in the past
you have used a different polytonic format, then these texts are not compatible
with Unicode fonts. In order to rectify this problem you have to convert
them.
The ACCENTUATOR
can perform this conversion in an easy and quick way so that you
may continue processing your old texts. The ACCENTUATOR
can convert texts from a) MAGENTA's ACCENTUATOR
1.0 for Windows 3.1 & 95, b) Apple's polytonic format
as it is used in Apple Macintosh computers, and c) GR-SOFT's polytonic
format.
To convert the texts you need to have them in .Ô×Ô format.
You can toggle the keyboard
with a custom keyboard shortcut. Thus, when you type in Greek you
can use this keyobard shortcut in order to type in English or use the
characters of a different language without having to change the font.
Insertion of special symbols and characters
which are included in the fonts but cannot produced
through the keyboard. Such characters are e.g. currency symbols, the copyright
symbol, upper and lower numerals, coptic symbols, etc.
Creation of new keyoboards, that is to say your favourite keyboard shortcuts
for the production of breathings, accents and combinations of the two.
Thus, you can customize the ACCENTUATOR in the manner that is most convenient
to you.
Customizing the keyboard shortcut which launches and closes the
ACCENTUATOR. If this shortcut is already used by a different
program or is not convenient, you can create a new one.
Changing the interface language.
If your Greek is not good enough or your PC does not support it
you can see all ACCENTUATOR messages and menus in English.
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