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MultiKey 4.00

Free Keyboard enhancement for Latin with diacritics, Ancient Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc.

Predefined Unicode keyboard tables for

Latin
Polytonic Greek
Cyrillic
Hebrew
Arabic

Syriac
Devanagari
Hiragana
Katakana
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.
Automatic change of keyboard mode, if you use the Classical Text Editor.

Download your free copy of MultiKey	4.0	for	Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003 or the Classical Text Editor
	3.0		Microsoft Word 95
	3.0		Windows 3.1

Download the self-extracting file, save it to a new folder, run it to extract the MultiKey files.
Run "install.exe".
You will be asked for a folder: please find the manuals there after installation.
(If for some reason the Microsoft Office Startup directory was not found by the install program, you will be notified that the file MltKyb97.dot could not be copied. In this case please move it into the Office Startup folder by hand.)
(Word 95 or lower: Install the extracted fonts.)
When installation has completed, you may delete all files from the directory specified by you, or move them to a new location. But please read the manual.

And here's a great Spanish Manual 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 "understood" 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: 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.

Q: How to deinstall MultiKey?
A: Delete the "MltKey97.dot" file from your Microsoft Office "Startup" folder.
You may also want to delete the "Multikey.exe", "MultiKyb.dll" and "MultiKey.ini" from your Windows folder, but these are tiny and do no harm.

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 anyone who needs it.