Theuth Converter Task Pane

The Converter task pane contains the controls for converting (typically) Greek text from one arbitrary encoding font into another or to Unicode or vice-versa, to or from Beta code, or automatically transliterate some Greek text.

The pane is used in slightly different ways according to the conversion mode you select in the topright dropdown list.

Font to fonts

This conversion is useful when you are dealing with Greek text written using a non-standard Ancient Greek font: even if Unicode is widespread, several authors still use such fonts, especially on Mac platforms (e.g. SuperGreek, Graeca, etc.). This of course is a problem when you have to collect documents from different sources and convert such arbitrarily encoded text into a standard Unicode text, or vice-versa. Theuth is built to be an open solution to this problem, so it is based onto XML font description tables: you can use or create a table for each font you want to be the source or the target of a conversion, and then lend it to Theuth to convert your Word documents.

The converter task pane allows you to convert from a font encoding into another, either arbitrary or standard. Follow these steps:

1. open the document containing the text you want to convert and place the cursor at the place from where you want the conversion to start (usually the beginning of the document itself).
2. select the font you want to convert from from the tables list in the pane, and click the button A+ (=set this font as the source).
3. select the font(s) you want to convert to from the same tables list, and click the button B+ (=add this font to the target fonts). You may have a single source font but several target fonts.
4. click the convert (thunder) button. Theuth will locate all the characters using the source font, convert them and assign them the appropriate target font. You can select a custom folder containing your own font description tables with the combobox at the bottom of the fonts list.

You can use the X (clear) buttons to remove your fonts selections.

Beta to font(s)

This mode allows you to convert a Greek and/or Latin Beta code into a text encoded with Unicode or any non-standard font encoding as explained above:

1. open the document containing the text you want to convert and place the cursor at the place from where you want the conversion to start (usually the beginning of the document itself).
2. Theuth will assume that in your text not all the contents are Beta-coded, but only the characters using a specific font. So select the font representing Beta code in the fonts page: notice that you are not going to select a font description table as above, but just a font name. This is why you use the fonts tab instead of the tables page. You still need the tables page to specify the output encoding: choose one or more font tables here as explained above (select and click the B+ button). For instance, if you want to convert Beta code into Unicode you can select as target tables both Gruni (for Greek) and Times New Roman (for Latin), or if you just have Greek text and you want to convert it into SuperGreek you can select this as the target table.
3. click the convert (thunder) button. Theuth will locate all the characters using the source font, convert them and assign them the appropriate target font.

Font to Beta

Use this method to convert text encoded using a specified font (either standard or not) into Beta code:

1. open the document containing the text you want to convert and place the cursor at the place from where you want the conversion to start (usually the beginning of the document itself).
2. select the font you want to convert from from the tables list in the pane, and click the button A+ (=set this font as the source).
3. click the convert (thunder) button. Theuth will locate all the characters using the source font, convert them into Beta code (you may want to change their font later; you can also use the change fonts function in the ribbon for this).

Notice that the start font for Beta text is assumed to be Latin, so prepend the appropriate $ escape to your Greek Beta code.

Transliterate

This method converts all the Unicode Greek text formatted with a specified font into its transliterated Latin version, using only the Windows-1252 character set. Just select the font in the fonts page and click the thunder button.