by Glenn Wooden, revised by Harry Hahne

The fonts in WinGreek are of good quality and can be selected via function keys or Ctrl-Shift combinations.

The keyboard arrangement is largely that of CCAT-TLG. In the Hebrew font, the vowels are centered under the letters. However, when placed under narrow letters, they appear too large and cause uneven spacing. Consonants and vowels are joined by typing the consonant followed by the vowel and then pressing the F7 key. This creates an overstrike set. In Word 6 this is implemented through the equation editor, which remains unobtrusive-until one happens to double click on a Hebrew word, which quite annoyingly invokes it! (One error was noted in the description of the key assignments for Hebrew: "t" is said to be both teth (really the "u") and he ("t").) The font has only the two basic accents and does not have cantillations.

The Greek font, which includes some older Greek characters is much nicer. Distinct characters are entered by placing the Beta utility into Greek mode, and entering the basic character and the relevant accent/breathing key.

The Beta utility governs the input of diacritics/vowels in Roman, Greek and Hebrew text. Moreover, it invokes the right-to-left Hebrew function transparently (and it automatically selects the proper font). According to the documentation, making corrections is supposed to work by the use of the Pause key, which invokes an "intelligent backspace" macro. This failed to work. However, once a button was assigned to the macro, it was possible to erase distinct and overstrike characters (but not an accent by itself).

The documentation is not well organized and could be a problem for those who are still new to computers or to the Windows environment. One clearly laid out document for user information and another for technical information would be better.

Although the original WinGreek program will only work with Windows 3.1, a revised "Son of WinGreek" is available works with standard Windows word processors in Windows 95.

System Requirements:
Windows 3.1 or later.

Version:
Reviewed: 1.9.

Availability:
Shareware software available from numerous Web and FTP sites, including the "official" site, http://www.interlog.com/~pjg/. A modified version for Windows 95 is available from http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/ SoWG.html.

Quick Summary:
WinGreek includes Hebrew, Greek and Coptic fonts, several files of documentation, a right-to-left/diacritic utility (Beta 2.17) and a conversion program for the CCAT texts. There are several other macros that are designed to make editing easier, such as one that puts a dot under English letters, and one that automatically detects the font. The fonts have been utilized by Scriptorium and Musaios (search software for the TLG CD-ROM). The package was originally designed for Word for Windows 1.1 and 2.0 and has been recently upgraded for 6.0a. (The developers will not guarantee that it works with Word 6.0.)