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Margaret Schaus, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer (HC)

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Configuring your browser to display Unicode Polytonic Greek
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Greek 102 Homer : Tips for Using the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (HC)

Configuring your browser to display Unicode Polytonic Greek:

After you determine that your computer has a Greek font or you load a Greek font into your fonts folder, you may still need to adjust your browser in order to see the Greek characters.

For PC Users (Windows and IE Explorer) Open your Control Panel. Choose Internet Options. Then go to Fonts. Select Greek in the Language Script pull down menu.

For MAC Users (OSX and Safari) Open the Apple icon. Go to Preferences and then to Appearance. Select the font that you want to use.

Configuring your keyboard to type Greek:

How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Widows XP

A detailed guide from Microsoft.

Mac OS 10.4: Enabling Polytonic Greek

Screen shots from the Bryn Mawr Language Learning Center

TLG Guides:

A Guide to Using the Online TLG

An overview of features and searching.

Fonts

Includes links, explanations, and tests for determining that your chosen font is displaying properly.

Font Configuration

More detailed information on installing Greek fonts and using them.

TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works

A bibliographic list of all the authors and works included in the database. Currently there are over 3,500 authors and more than 12,000 texts.

Advanced Search

An overview of the more specialized typed of searching available.

Complex or Proximity Searches

Explanations of searches that locate a word within a certain distance of another chosen word.

Wildcard Searches

Ways in which to truncate words for more comprehensive search results.

More Information on TLG:

Vοοσ into Chaos

Journal article by Maria Pantelia, director of TLG. “Vοοσ into Chaos: The Creation of the Thesaurus of the Greek Language,” International Journal of Lexicography 13, 1 (2000): 1-11.

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