To use networked resources with restricted licenses from off campus, you must use the campus VPN client or the older library proxy server service. VPN is far preferable. To use either, you need to have a CalNet ID. For information on getting a CalNet ID and on setting up either VPN or proxy service, see the Classics Computing Resource Guide.
Unless you have an old computer and old software, you should use Unicode Greek for all purposes (word processing and TLG searching and displaying Greek on the web). The latest browsers deal with polytonic Unicode Greek well, and modern operating systems come with fonts that contain the needed characters for display in the browser, and there are several free fonts you can install.
To type Unicode Greek in the search field of a browser, you need to enable a Unicode keyboard or input. GreekKeys inputs for OS X and keyboards for Windows XP/Vista do this, but free resources in OS X (Greek Polytonic) and XP/Vista Polytonic Greek can also enable you to type Greek in the search field of a browser.
For some other keyboard possibilities for Windows (some free) see the GreekKeys FAQ.
Note that the online TLG interface now includes an clickable on-screen keyboard chart that can be used for entry of Unicode.
If you use GreekKeys Unicode, the keyboard works like this:
a = α, b = β, h = η, f = φ, x = χ, etc. with the other obvious equivalences, but the ones you need to be aware of are
y = θ
v = ω
c = ψ
j = ξ
The GreekKeys scheme for applying diacritics to Greek vowels uses a deadkey system. The same scheme works for GreekKeys Unicode that was used previously for GreekKeys Universal with non-Unicode encoding. Press the option key along with one of the top row of regular keys (from 1 to hyphen) to indicate what diacritic you want, then type the desired vowel (or rho after the deadkey for a breathing sign).
option-1 acute
option-2 grave
option-3 circumflex
option-4 smooth
option-5 rough
option-6 smooth acute
option-7 rough acute
option-8 smooth grave
option-9 rough grave
option-0 smooth circumflex
option-hyphen rough circumflex
option-a alpha with iota subscript
option-h eta with iota subscript
option-v omega with iota subscript
In GreekKeys Unicode (BUT NOT in old-fashioned GreekKeys Universal) you can cumulate deadkeys: thus instead of option 6 followed by e to get epsilon with smooth acute, you can type option-1, option-4, e or option-4, option-1, e and get the same result, so there are three ways to enter the same epsilon with smooth acute.
The scheme for GreekKeys 2008 for Windows is very similar, but instead of using a key combination, you simply press the same number keys as above once by themselves before the vowel. To get both diacritic above and iota subscript below, used the shifted number keys instead before the vowel. To type what is actually shown on the key (a number of punctuation), press the key twice in succession.
URL: http://www.annee-philologique.com/aph/
Links also present through the library:
either go to home-page
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/)
and select Electronic Resources, then Bibliographies for the link;
or use the link on the Classics resources page of the AH/C site,
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/classicsresources.html
The campus license is for 10 simultaneous UCB users, so it is remotely possible that your connection might be refused if 10 people are already connected from UCB.
Home page:
About
Enter
Search page
modern author; full text, ancient authors, subjects and disciplines, date, other criteria
Search window
History window:
changes after multiple searches: recalculation; combine (for OR and NOT only, since TOTAL already gives the AND combination)
Results window
Record window
Help
When using the Print or Export buttons, be sure that you do not have "Block pop-up windows" chosen if your browser supports such a command. Pop-ups must be allowed for the Print or Export windows to open.
URL: http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/inst/fontsel
You can also get there from the TLG home page (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/) by clicking in the navigation panel at left on Subscribers: Institutions.
Links also present through the library:
either go to home-page
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/)
and select Electronic Resources, then select Indexes & Abstracts, then click on T to scroll down to link;
or use the link on the Classics resources page of the AH/C site,
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/classicsresources.html
User profile: establish an account if you wish to have a standard setup for font and number of results shown at a time, etc.
Input in Unicode: use the on-screen keyboard, or use GreekKeys Unicode input for Mac OS X, Apple's Polytonic Greek input in 10.4 and higher, Microsoft Polytonic Greek keyboard in Windows 2000/XP, or solutions like Antioch and Sibyllai. Windows users may consult the information at: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/WindowsFAQ.html
Input in beta code: Greek letters correspond for the most part to roman letters, but note q = theta, y= psi, c = xi, w = omega, v = digamma. More details about beta code at http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html.
Input in transliteration (same scheme as used for Perseus site): http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/TranslitTest.html
If you enter a string to search and use “textual search” the program makes a linear reading of the authors selected looking for matches, and thus it finds the string both at the beginning of a word and within a word. Thus with a textual search βουλε (or betacode boule) would get some present and imperfect forms of βούλομαι or βουλεύομαι.
If you enter the same string and click on “index search” the program treats the string as word-initial and matches only those words in which the string appears at the opening of the word, so the same string would get only the present forms of the verbs, and not the imperfects.
Search pages now have a link for "Lemmatized Search Engine" which is in a beta version. You can submit an exact lemma (dictionary form) and be offered a long list of the derived forms, or a substring, and be offered a list of applicable lemmata, from which you must select a few to see and select from their lists of forms.
The same distinction applies here between searching the index vs. doing the textual search of some author(s), unless you make additional settings. The author search is a textual search, catching strings word-initially and within the word. The index search sticks to word-initial matches unless you tell the program otherwise.
To use the index search and include matches for the string inside a word, you simply check the Wildcard Searches box. In this case, βουλε would match a great many possible forms, including e.g. βεβούλευμαι, ἐβούλετο. If you want to find an ending, like μενοιν, check Wildcard and enter the string with a trailing space character. If you want to find a compound verb form both with and without augment, you can use the period or dot, which means "match any one character." Thus αν.δυ will find forms with αναδυ and forms with ανεδυ. To force the wildcard index search to consider only strings at the start of a word, precede the string with the caret ^.
For more on sophisticated advanced searching, see
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/Help4.html
Conjoint searching: this means searching for a string when you are not sure whether or not, or in what position, there may be a word break. This is useful when dealing with texts like fragmentary inscriptions and papyri that do not have spaces between words. The symbol ? after a character indicates that it is optional, that it may or may not be there.
Use advanced search with Wildcard Search checked.
Any of [ ]? or space? or .? will work to indicate an optional space.
ρα.?μοι, or ρα ?μοι or ρα[ ]?μοι will produce δραμοι and ανδρα μοι and other phrases in Homer.
NOTES: you need to reset between one search and another for accurate results; an apostrophe will mess up the single variable search.
Proximity searching: this means searching for two strings occurring together within a certain span of text.
NOTE: lines of context must be set to double the find-within range.
On a small scrap of a Tebtunis papyrus, a few letters of good bookhand are legible in successive lines. Since Homer is the most common literary author found in papyri and the most common in the Tebtunis collection, one should start by seeing whether this comes from Homer.
Do an advanced search in Homer for κ.?α.?θ and ν.?α.?δ.?ω within 1 line of each other, making sure that the context is set to at least 3 lines, and checking wildcard next to both strings.
If you have access to any of these CD-ROMs (the TLG disk is no longer updated and contains far less than the online TLG; the PHI disks are no longer distributed) or (on a Mac) to a disk image of any of them, the free tool to use to search or browse is Diogenes by Peter Heslin (for OS X, Windows, or Linux). Be sure to use the latest released version (3.1 as of August 2008), since earlier versions had a problem with the Mac clipboard because of a bug in the Firefox engine (you could not copy text directly from Diogenes 2 to MS Word, but could do so through an intermediary stage by pasting into TextEdit and copying from there).
UCB subscribes to a Latin text database sold by Brepols, Library of Latin Texts (CLCLT6), which has much patristic and medieval Latin in it, but also covers most of the major Latin texts of the classical period.
To use this effectively, it is essential to read David Sullivan's guide at:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/guideCLCLT6.html
Log in to Brepols using the link on the Classics Resources page of the AH/C Library site:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ARTH/classetexts.html
If you are using a Mac, it used to be the case that you needed to use Firefox for this site because early versions of Safari did not draw some of the essential buttons; but the site does work with Safari 3.0 and higher.