>In the Bett book, I am running into a number of short Greek >expressions (in his discussion of translation issues.) I can >tag it with , and I can transliterate the letters >recognizably (using the SYMBOL font equivalencies) but I don't >know how to handle all the diacritical marks. How should we be >doing this? There are a couple of options: a Greek font or Unicode. One good (non-Unicode) Greek font is SIL Gentium, which can be downloaded from www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/. It's freeware, available for PCs and Macs. Skip Gaeda has written a program to convert this and a few other common Greek (and Hebrew) fonts to their Unicode equivalents. If you are using an ASCII text editor to type Greek text, the Greek font might not work so well, since your text editor will likely not display it. So, you may have to go with Unicode escapes. For example, you would type α for a lowercase alpha. The official Unicode Greek and Extended Greek character maps are located at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf Note that the CCEL uses base-10 escape sequences. For an Excel spreadsheet containing these base-10 escapes, download the file http://www.ccel.edu/ThML/GkGlyphs.xls -- you will need a Unicode font such as Galatia SIL, SIL Gentium (both available from www.sil.org), or Palatino Linotype in order to view it properly. Note that Greek characters do not yet display well unless you are running Windows 95/98/NT, IE 4 or later, and have a suitable font installed, such as SIL Gentium or Palatino Linotype. The SIL Unicode Greek and Hebrew fonts come bundled with keyboard layouts for use with Keyman (www.tavultesoft.com), a Windows application that makes entering Unicode relatively easy. If you are serious about entering Greek and Hebrew Unicode text, you need a Unicode-compliant operating system (such as Windows XP or Mac OS X) and a text-input application such as Keyman. Microsoft also offers a free download that lets you create customized Unicode-based keyboards for Windows 2000/XP/2003; search Microsoft's site for "Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator."