Very useful for teachers, students, researchers, scholars and anyone who uses ancient-polytonic (extended) greek. Basicly, it is almost the same layout with modern greek, except for these:
Long pressing ε, should show characters ἐ, ἑ, ἒ, ἓ, ἔ, ἕ, ὲ, έ Long pressing ρ, should show characters ῤ, ῥ
Long pressing υ, should show characters ὐ, ὑ, ὒ, ὓ, ὔ, ὕ, ὖ, ὗ, ῢ, ΰ, ῦ, ῧ Long pressing ι, should show characters ἰ, ἱ, ἲ, ἳ, ἴ, ἵ, ἶ, ἷ, ὶ, ί, ῒ, ΐ, ῖ, ῗ Long pressing ο, should show characters ὀ, ὁ, ὂ, ὃ, ὄ, ὅ, ὸ, ό
Long pressing α, should show characters ἀ, ἁ, ἂ, ἃ, ἄ, ἅ, ἆ, ἇ, ὰ, ά, ᾀ, ᾁ, ᾂ, ᾃ, ᾄ, ᾅ, ᾆ, ᾇ
Long pressing η, should show characters ἠ, ἡ, ἢ, ἣ, ἤ, ἥ, ἦ, ἧ, ὴ, ή, ᾐ, ᾑ, ᾒ, ᾓ, ᾔ, ᾕ, ᾖ, ᾗ, ῂ, ῃ, ῄ, ῆ, ῇ Long pressing ω, should show characters ὠ, ὡ, ὢ, ὣ, ὤ, ὥ, ὦ, ὧ, ὼ, ώ, ᾠ, ᾡ, ᾢ, ᾣ, ᾤ, ᾥ, ᾦ, ᾧ, ῲ, ῳ, ῴ, ῶ, ῷ
As you can see from the above, the characters are too many for use on a tablet and difficult – even for Greeks. So direct typing of the characters is not feasible.
Another suggestion:
At the first row of letters (look at the modern greek layout), replace arabic numbers (ancient greek uses letters instead of numbers) with punctuation. 2 with ´ 3 with ` 4 with ῀ 5 with ¨ 6 with ᾿ 7 with ῾ 8 with ι
2, 3, 4 combine with letters ε, υ, ι, ο, α, η, ω 5 combine with letters υ, ι
6, 7 combine with letters ε, ρ, υ, ι, ο, α, η, ω 8 combine with letters α, η, ω 2, 3, 4 do not combine together 5 do not combine with 6, 7, 8 6, 7 do not combine together
Using these rules, all characters described above, are typeable, with no bugs.
For example, long typing 2 + long typing 6 + long typing 8 + simple typing α should print ᾄ.
Also, do these replacements (ancient greek numbers). They behave as letters and have capitals as well.
1 with ϛ (six)
9 with ϡ (nine hundred) 0 with ϟ (ninety)
· (similar to english ;) is necessary and missing from the modern greek layout as well.
Best Regards, Emmanouel Abramides Medical Doctor Moderator at http://analogion.com/forum/
P.S. If the layout is out, many people will be pleased when I post it on the forum.