Graeciseby Clad in Sky Graecise is a macro for Openoffice.org Writer that facilitates the input of polytonic Greek characters. You can find more information on the Graecise Website. (contains ads, sorry). License: opensource Further product information: Screenshots | Product details
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Suggestions for improvements
I personally would like this macro could work not only for a word but for example for all the highlight text.
My wife teaches Ancient Greek in an Italian school and she has to prepare tasks for students.
She would be quite helped if she could:
1. Prepare all the document using Latin words;
2. Select all the text she has to translate;
3. Run the macro.
For this kind of work translating one word a time like Graecise does is not useful.
IMHO another possibility is to integrate the macro somewhere in the menu od OOo. When you select the voice "Graecise" a window or something else appears with 3 choices:
a. translate the selected word
b. translate the selected paragraph
c. translate all the document
TIA if you would take into consideration this comment.
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Topoldo
Two more wishes
Hello, I have two wishes.
1) I would suggest another mode for Graecise - a "writing mode". It would work in this way:
- you activate the "writing mode" (with a keyboard shortcut)
- start typing and everything you type is directly typed/displayed in Greek letters
- you deactivate the "writing mode" (with the same keyboard shortcut as before).
Although this extension probably came to life as an alternative to such keyboard switches, I still think it would be great for some users to be available. Also, this change of keyboard would work only in the OOo apps, not system-wide, so user would really switch it on/off when needed.
2) I think Graecise needs to set the language attribute of converted (or in the above request, entered) text characters to "Greek, Ancient" that is available from 3.2 in OOo upon my request to developers (well, it is already in the 3.2 beta - m1 - so you can test it). That way all Ancient Greek text would get its proper language attribute.
If the Ancient Greek spell-check dictionary extension for OOo changes its language setting from Greek (there was no Ancient Greek in OOo before, so it used Greek as language code) to Ancient Greek, the Graecised text could then be automatically spell-checked. I already asked the author of Ancient Greek extension to deliver a new version of the extension with the new language setting.
Hope this makes sense. Lp, m.
0.6.1 is out
As of yesterday 0.6.1 is out - so no more graecising whole paragraphs.
Problems updating
Sorry, but I downloaded 0.6.1 and updated 0.5.1 and now get errors because of "unknown status" of this extension - it can not be enabled, it is kept disabled. So this error is still present from 0.6, I would say.
Packaging error and a BUG
For some reason the Package throws an error upon installing (at least on my computer).
Furthermore there is a bug in 0.6.0 that results in graecising whole paragraphs (you might actually like it).
I'll upload a fixed version later today. Until then you can fix it manually if you like either by preceding the text portion you want to be in Greek by →, or by altering the code:
Got to tools, macros, organize macros, my macros, Graecise.
Click "edit".
Change the line
"Do While aString <> "→" and textCursor.isStartOfParagraph() = false"
to
"Do While aString <> " " and textCursor.isStartOfParagraph() = false"
Sorry about the inconvenience.
License not specified
Hello, the license of this plugin is still not specified on this site (it says "License: notspecified"). This might turn away those who do not want to use proprietary software, so I suggest you specify your software license.
Anyway, good work!
Fixed. Thanks.
Fixed. Thanks.
New minor release due soon.
I have noticed a (bug/ feature) that prevents in text capital vowels from being converted to Greek.
Typing:
Anakreon will work and give you the correct graecised word (with spiritus lenis)
but typing anything in front of Anakreon like
Xaire Anakreon will not only fail to give you an alpha with spiritus lenis but also fail to convert the A or any other capital letter to the Greek equivalent.
This bug only occurs if you forget to put ANY correct "accent" in front of the capital letter.
Xaire )Anakreon
will work.
Released now. Get it while
Released now. Get it while it is hot.
License error
Upon installing this extension on OSX the Extension Manager shows error "Could not obtain path to license. Possible error in description.xml". Also, your extension listing does not list the license type, so obviously it must be missing from the description.xml or there are errors in its notation. Hope you fix this soon.
License error
Hello,
thank you for pointing that one out. I fixed this in version 0.5.1