====== Transcribing a Text File ======

Take a text file of Coptic keyed in the unicode Coptic characterset. (SCRIPTORIUM uses the [[http://www.evertype.com/fonts/coptic/|Antinoou font]] and keyboard.)\\ \\
Save the file as a plain text file (.txt) encoded in UTF-8. (Most text editors have an option in Preferences for opening and saving texts in UTF-8.) \\ \\
Be sure there is a space between each Coptic bound group.  (You do not need to segment all the morphemes.  We follow Layton's conventions for segmenting bound groups.  For example ⲁϥⲟⲩⲱϣⲃ ⲛⲁϥ, not ⲁ ϥ ⲟⲩⲱϣⲃ ⲛⲁ ϥ, nor ⲁϥⲟⲩⲱϣⲃⲛⲁϥ.  (Our [[http://copticscriptorium.org/download/tools/SCRIPTORIUMDiplTranscriptionGuidelines.pdf|Transcription Guidelines]] have more details.)\\ \\
//Mac users:  save your text file using Unix line breaks/carriage returns.  Most text editors have an option for toggling between Windows/Mac/Unix line breaks; we recommend the free texteditor [[http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/|Text Wrangler]].  This formatting option is displayed at the bottom of the window.// \\ \\

===== Advanced =====  

If you have a text in ASCII, in one of the old, pre-Unicode legacy fonts, such as Lasercoptic, it may be possible to convert your text using one of [[https://github.com/CopticScriptorium/converters|our character converters]].