Okay, at the beginning of my annual eight-month vacation, I'm thinking it is time to go back and bone up on my never-very-functional classical Greek. Right now for calisthenics, I'm working my way through a battered copy of Martin Hiner's Greek Comprehensions for Schools (1992) which I seem to have spilled coffee on already at some unknown time in the past.
I decided I really needed to put a bit in writing, and then recalled that I didn't possess an adequate Greek font. How dreary: I've tried to configure Greek fonts before and never got them quite right.
But I popped on over to the Greek study group web page and copped myself a freebie of something called Unicorn. I downloaded; I unzipped; I fired up; I found myself looking at a blank page.
But hey wait a minute--it's all there. Just press escape twice, and you're good to go.
Are you surprised? Maybe I should not have been. Countless apps these days come on board the Iphone friction free. But I go back to the Pleistocene. The very idea of a program that you did not have to configure, start over, reonfigure--and finally abandon as worthless. Something that actually works: how refreshing, And free, BTW. I have no idea who this Kirk Lougheed guy is (I don't suppose it is this guy?), but he has my gratitude. Now, as I was saying,ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα ...
I decided I really needed to put a bit in writing, and then recalled that I didn't possess an adequate Greek font. How dreary: I've tried to configure Greek fonts before and never got them quite right.
But I popped on over to the Greek study group web page and copped myself a freebie of something called Unicorn. I downloaded; I unzipped; I fired up; I found myself looking at a blank page.
But hey wait a minute--it's all there. Just press escape twice, and you're good to go.
Are you surprised? Maybe I should not have been. Countless apps these days come on board the Iphone friction free. But I go back to the Pleistocene. The very idea of a program that you did not have to configure, start over, reonfigure--and finally abandon as worthless. Something that actually works: how refreshing, And free, BTW. I have no idea who this Kirk Lougheed guy is (I don't suppose it is this guy?), but he has my gratitude. Now, as I was saying,ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα ...
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