Why is GreekKeys for Windows no longer being sold?
Since WORD 97 and 2000 for Windows have altered permanently the treatment of symbol fonts (the type GreekKeys used to match Macintosh Greek with Windows), GREEKKEYS WILL NO LONGER BE SOLD FOR USE WITH WINDOWS effective May 25, 1999. (But you CAN STILL USE GreekKeys/Windows with WORD 95; and with the freely-downloadable Greek font “Athenian” to read Greek text in PERSEUS) Users of ancient Greek on WORD 97 and 2000 are recommended to start using UNICODE Polytonic Greek (see above), either with the Unicode fonts and keyboard utility “Antioch” from Ralph Hancock (shareware, $50 registration fee)) or “Politonistis” from Magenta software in Greece (15,000 drachmas, about $50), which may be downloaded/ordered from their websites. (see below for details).
Since WORD 97 and 2000 for Windows have altered permanently the treatment of symbol fonts (the type GreekKeys used to match Macintosh Greek with Windows), GREEKKEYS WILL NO LONGER BE SOLD FOR USE WITH WINDOWS effective May 25, 1999. (But you CAN STILL USE GreekKeys/Windows with WORD 95; and with the freely-downloadable Greek font “Athenian” to read Greek text in PERSEUS) Users of ancient Greek on WORD 97 and 2000 are recommended to start using UNICODE Polytonic Greek (see above), either with the freely downloadable font “Athena”, or with the Unicode fonts and keyboard utility “Antioch” from Ralph Hancock (shareware, $50 registration fee)) or “Politonistis” from Magenta software in Greece (15,000 drachmas, about $50), which may be downloaded/ordered from their websites.
