How do I enter Greek text and search for the string of Greek characters?

David Parker
David Parker Member Posts: 48
edited November 20 in English Forum

Hey, I would like to search for the Greek string ὑπὸ νόμον (under law) in all Greek resources. How do I do it? I can work on the collections aspect of it, but I've not gone to Camp Logos 2 yet to know how to work with the original language.

On a Mac, you can enter the breathings/accents. Should I? And, where?

I looked on the forum posts and found that one can type g:word, but it seems to work for one word. i'd prefer to enter the true Greek.

I can also go into the Windows version if something isn't ready in the UI.

// thanks.

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  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭

    Try Greek in "quotes". It should work because it works in English. Since it will find g:word, I don't think that accents matter at this stage.

    I haven't used it because I'm still using L3 for serious language work until morphological searches are enabled. Then you will be able to search with lemmas which is far better.

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  • Cameron Watters (Faithlife)
    Cameron Watters (Faithlife) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 737

    You can type in the Greek script OR you can use the untransliteration tools and type g:upo and or g:nomon into the search bar and it will offer suggested forms.

    We try not to be too legalistic about your options.

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  • Doug Dunbar
    Doug Dunbar Member Posts: 129 ✭✭

    We try not to be too legalistic about your options.

    That's sneakily funny in the context here. Nice one Cameron.

  • David Parker
    David Parker Member Posts: 48

    Yes, that was a good reply.

    And, exactly what I'm trying to check up on. I was reading a commentary by David Stern and I was interested in checking out his position.

    If I only find it being used by Sha'ul, then his assessment is probably correct about legalism and the Law, not the Law itself, given Matthew 5:17.

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  • Jim
    Jim Member Posts: 724 ✭✭✭

    You can type in the Greek script OR
    you can use the untransliteration tools and type g:upo and or g:nomon
    into the search bar and it will offer suggested forms.

    Two questions:

    1. How do you type Greek script? I don't find a Greek keyboard in L4 as in L3.

    2. How does David get the "ὑπὸ νόμον" search he asked for? I tried g:"upo nomon" (searching NA27) and got no hits, though I can find at least two verses that have that phrase (by searching and English Bible and then looking at the Greek text).

    Have a great day,
    jmac

  • Alan Macgregor
    Alan Macgregor Member Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭

    1. How do you type Greek script? I don't find a Greek keyboard in L4 as in L3.

    2. How does David get the "ὑπὸ νόμον" search he asked for? I tried g:"upo nomon" (searching NA27) and got no hits, though I can find at least two verses that have that phrase (by searching and English Bible and then looking at the Greek text).

    1. If you are using a PC then download the Greek Polytonic System from Microsoft's website and follow the installation instructions. If you are using Mac then Instructions and a printable summary layout are at  www.TyndaleHouse.co.uk/Fonts/Unicode.htm. Alternatively the Tyndale House site does have a setup for PC as well. All of these are free for personal use.

    2. Using the Tyndale keyboard set up on my Mac I switched to Greek Keyboard and typed ὑπο νόμον and ran the search. You can see the results on the screenshot.

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    Hope that helps.

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  • David Parker
    David Parker Member Posts: 48

    Jim, for entering greek characters on the Mac, go to the Edit menu in Logos (though this is system wide) and choose Special Characters. You will see all the scripts there. Go to European Scripts, choose Greek, and then you will the Greek Character set.

    You place your cursor in the text box where you want the text to go, and then in the character palette, just double-click the characters you want. They will be inserted where the input caret is.

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  • David Parker
    David Parker Member Posts: 48

    Thanks for this as well. Much cleaner than what I'm currently doing.

    Will download it.

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  • Stephen Ashton
    Stephen Ashton Member Posts: 237 ✭✭

    Here's another way:

    Go to System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources, turn on the Greek keyboard (circled in the screenshot below) and makes sure that you've selected the 'Show Input menu in menu bar' button (see arrow, below):

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    When you've done this you can switch keyboards from the menu bar:

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    And use the Keyboard viewer while you learn which keys represent which characters:

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    This is particularly good fun when someone is looking over your shoulder in Starbucks! [:P]

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  • David Parker
    David Parker Member Posts: 48

    Oh, thanks so much.

    i'm hoping to facilitate a Greek class to "whosoever will" when I'm done with my own studies. This makes it so much easier than the method that I was previously doing to enter greek characters. I dreaded having to create material with that method.

    Thanks to all the suggestions.

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  • Daniel Steffen
    Daniel Steffen Member Posts: 1

    Are you showing "System Preferences" inside Logos or a mac?

    How do I use Greek text to make searches for Greek in the Greek NT in Logos?

  • Are you showing "System Preferences" inside Logos or a mac?

    Welcome [:D]

    Mac has 'System Preferences' for Keyboard whose appearance and choices in macOS 10.12 High Sierra is now a bit different:

    This thread started on 23 Mar 2010 after Logos 4 Mac Alpha pre-release 16a. Logos wiki has => https://wiki.logos.com/Mac_Release_Notes_and_History

    Fast Forward to Feb 2018 where 7.12 is the current stable release. Logos wiki has => https://wiki.logos.com/Logos_Release_History

    You can type in the Greek script OR you can use the untransliteration tools and type g:upo and or g:nomon into the search bar and it will offer suggested forms.

    Logos Help includes Untransliteration => https://ref.ly/logosres/logos4help?hw=Untransliteration

    How do I use Greek text to make searches for Greek in the Greek NT in Logos?

    Logos Pro Training by Faithlife => https://www.logos.com/logos-pro includes Greek and Hebrew tools.

    Internet search:

    site:community.logos.com search greek

    finds many threads discussing various Greek searches.

    Also could write a new post in => Learn to Use Biblical Greek and Hebrew with Greek search question.

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