Deca means ten in Greek. Octo means eight also in Greek, but when octo is used in composite words it becomes octa-. Therefore, deca-core, means ten-core and octa-core means eight-core. Why are we using Greek words to describe the CPU or other hardware or software features, when we could very well use modern English? After […]
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Since 2013 Microsoft Word hyphenates polytonic Greek documents even automatically; for older Word versions you can download Ancient Greek Hyphenator, a convenient free template that adds accurate hyphenation macros. I have tried it in a long document (900 pages) written in polytonic (ancient and modern) Greek, and it worked without faults and very fast. A help file […]
Old Standard and Theano Didot are two of the most interesting free unicode fonts containing polytonic Greek. Old Standard was intended as a multilingual font family suitable for biblical, classical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script. It reproduces a specific type of Modern (classicist) […]
OpenTeacher is a free vocabulary training application you can use if you learn a foreign language. To start practicing you need to enter a list of words in both a known and a foreign language. Features: Smart question asking and interval training * Think answer, shuffle answer and repeat answer input modes * Easy symbol, […]