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I'm taking a course in ancient Greek, and I store notes and flash cards on my computer. However, by default Ubuntu uses a modern Greek font. This changes some noticable things--for example, a circumflex is ᾶ instead of α̑. I can type the circumflex by switching back to english and entering the unicode combining character u0311 (which is what I just did to type the second α), but obviously this is very cumbersome.
I've installed the "ttf-linex" package from the Ubuntu repositories, which claims to include an ancient Greek font. But I have no idea how to enable this font for whenever I switch to the Greek keyboard layout.
Do you want to change the language used / keyboard system wide, or just change the font in a single application? – DaveParillo – 2009-11-17T05:55:58.207
Right now I switch between American and Greek keyboard layouts. I want this change to be system-wise, but only when I am in the Greek keyboard layout. – Matthew – 2009-11-17T15:36:23.573