Koine (Biblical) Greek in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

A Tech article with View Comments posted 7 July 2010.
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I’ve been using Ubuntu for several years with KMFL (Keyboard Mapping for Linux), a project to bring “Keyman-style” keyboard maps to Linux in order to type in Unicode. These are vastly superior to traditional keyboard maps because they allow you to type more naturally.

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Biblical Hebrew in Ubuntu Hardy Heron

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Hebrew, Greek, and English living together in OpenOffice.org

Hebrew, Greek, and English living together in OpenOffice.org

Here’s the process for installing Biblical Hebrew input method support for Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This guide does not work as of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Please see my new guide for directions on getting KMFL to work with iBus.

  1. First, go install SCIM as described in my instructions on installing Koine Greek, steps 1-4 (but replace gutsy with hardy).
  2. Download the “Ezra 2.51 source and font release” from the SIL Non-Roman Script Initiative on this page.
  3. Extract the archive and compile the keyboard with kmflcomp EZRAUNI24.KMN
  4. Run scim-setup, click on the KMFL option, click install, then browse to the compiled .kmfl file to install the input method.
  5. Save the settings. You’ll also probably need to log out and log back in for everything to work right.
  6. Browse through the included Ezra SIL Keyboard Chart. Hebrew is not as keyboard-intuitive as Greek.

Special thanks to Sheila Harrison at the Non-Roman Script Initiative for pointing me at the right package to download.

Update: Sheila writes:

Thank you for giving others a chance to work through the process more easily. I appreciate your comment on the web page, but thanks should really go to Lorna Priest, who reminded me that the source was on the download page. I knew it was available somewhere but hadn’t double checked it yet.

Koine Greek in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

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IMPORTANT NOTE: This guide does not work as of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Please see my new guide for directions on getting KMFL to work with iBus.

Here’s the simple process for installing Koine Greek input method support for Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon:

  1. Make sure you have scim installed
  2. Add this repository to your apt sources: deb http://packages.sil.org/ubuntu gutsy main
  3. sudo aptitude update
  4. sudo aptitude install scim-kmfl-imengine kmflcomp
  5. Download scim-greek-koine.tar.gz, which contains a KMFL engine file I got from somewhere else that I have modified to work.
  6. Extract the tarfile and compile the kmfl file by running kmflcomp GrkPolyComp.KMN
  7. Run scim-setup, click on the new “KMFL” option, click install, browse to the GrkPolyComp.kmfl file you just compiled.

It was a twisty road to get to this point, so if it doesn’t work for you, post in the comments and I’ll try to help you work it out.

Greek Out!

A Church article with View Comments posted 7 August 2007.
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Well, we’re deep in the dank murky corners of the different Greek verb forms in week 3 of summer Greek. One of my classmates commented that he’s about to “Greek Out,” and I liked that phrase so much that I named this Koine Greek verb quiz program after it.

As I understand it, we need to be able to take the other principle parts of various verbs and remember which verb (especially irregular ones) goes with which first principle part. So feel free to Greek Out on this verb recognition quiz.