MultiKey 5.01

Copyright © 1996-2011 by Stefan Hagel

Free Keyboard utility for Latin with diacritics, Ancient Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.:
Supports Unicode input in many Microsoft Windows programs.

Currently only available for 32bit applications (also if running in a 64bit environment). A 64bit version is under development.

• Predefined Unicode keyboard tables for
  • Latin
  • Polytonic Greek
  • Modern Greek
  • Cyrillic
  • Armenian
  • Georgian
  • Hebrew
  • Arabic
  • Syriac
  • Devanagari
  • Hiragana
  • Katakana
  • Ethiopic
  • Runic
  • Ogham
  • Gothic
  • Old Italic
  • Ugaritic
• Predefined keyboard tables for old encoding standards:
  • ten polytonic Greek encodings (Aisa, WinGreek Greek, Athenian, Logos Gramma, Kadmos, EuroKeys, OldGreek, WP Greek Century, WL Greek, Grk),
  • Eastern European fonts,
  • two Cyrillic encodings (Cyril Times, WL Cyrillic),
  • three Hebrew (WL Hebrew, WinGreek Hebrew, BWHEBB)
  • and an Arabic (WP Arabic) encoding.
• If you need more, change existing and create new tables.
• Greek Unicode font included.
• Manuals included (PDF).
• Automatic change of keyboard mode, if you use the Classical Text Editor.

Download your free copy of MultiKey	5.1	for	Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7 (32bit apps)
	3.0		Microsoft Word 95
	3.0		Windows 3.1

Installation: Download and/or run the setup progtam; follow the instructions.

•  Italian by Monica L'Erario
•  Spanish by Juan José Marcos García, designer of the ALPHABETUM Unicode font for ancient scripts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why can't I write Devanagari and Gothic, etc.?
A: MultiKey contains only a Greek font. The rest are keyboard layouts to use with other, mainly Unicode compliant, fonts. So you need a font that includes the script you need (and the case of complex scripts also a word processor capable of handling them). Some fonts with many scripts are: TITUS Cyberbit basic, ALPHABETUM Unicode.

Q: Instead of accented Greek characters I get rectangles
A: Windows has not "realised" that new fonts have been installed. Open the Fonts folder (Start - Settings - Control Panel - Fonts), and double-click "Aisa Unicode" to open it. Close the open windows.

Q: Instead of a grave accent, there is a small vertical line on the epsilon
A: This is only due to the screen resolution. Use a larger zoom factor or font size, or print it: then you will see the grave accents.

Q: I am using Windows 7 and cannot access the MultiKey menu from the icon at the application bar.
A: Activate MultiKey by pressing Alt+Tab. Then press Alt+Space. The menu shows up - and also offers you to transfer the icon to the "Notification area".

Q: MultiKey sometimes ceases to work.
A: This can happen if you start another application. Press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+L to re-initialize MultiKey. If nothing helps, close and restart MultiKey and your word processor.

Q: How to type a series of uncombined characters which represent a combination (e.g. "a+" instead of "á")?
A: Between the characters, press Shift+Ctrl+Alt. Or, to disable MultiKey temporarily, press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+X.

This program is a free service to anyone concerned with Ancient Greek etc. – if you feel the need to pay for it, do so to someone who needs it.

© 2011-02-15 Stefan Hagel