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... at a single mouse click ...
The Nanos Virtual Keyboard is a keyboard on the screen, a "soft keyboard". It makes it possible to enter any Modern or Ancient Greek character with a single mouse click, totally without your computer's physical keyboard! Apart from doing away with all those complicated hotkeys, the Virtual Keyboard makes it possible to select even the most outlandish specialized character (say, upper-case archaic koppa) in a flash. And the Nanos Virtual Keyboard works in exactly the same way on all operating systems, while physical keyboards with their hotkeys and language settings differ from operating system to operating system and software package to software package. On some operating systems you can activate a Greek keyboard layout for your physical keyboard. This will let you type basic characters (alpha, beta, etc.) from the physical keyboard and accented characters from the Virtual Keyboard. Although the Nanos Virtual Keyboard of course contains the basic characters as well. So with Nanos it is even possible to create and edit Greek texts on systems where a Greek keyboard layout is not available, such as ODBC servers or other mission-critical equipment in data centers.

... on all relevant operating systems ...
This is something few other editors can boast: to be available for all relevant operating systems. Nanos works identically on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows. Everything works exactly the same: text editing, Virtual Keyboard, fonts. Result: you can use Nanos in diverse workgroups, across continents and company rules. Publishing houses running Mac OS X can use Nanos just as their authors who may be using Linux or a version of Windows. Experts in universities or national libraries using SUN servers can update their Greek text archives using Nanos right on their systems. Nanos lets you even edit Modern and Ancient Greek in environments where Greek keyboard layouts may not be installed, such as mission-critical ODBC servers.
Display and print is perfect and identical on all platforms, thanks to our carefully hand-crafted pre-composite characters: all characters get displayed and printed as single units, so there are no more out-of-control accents, breathing marks or other surprises. Read more...

... in compliance with ISO norms ...
Nanos reads and writes text in UTF-8 format, which is fully compliant with the international norms and regulations applicable to Greek text editing (specifically, ISO 10646). Nanos works with Unicode fonts and gives access to the code ranges "Greek" (character positions 0370-03FF) and "Greek Extended" (character positions 1F00-1FFF), including all polytonic combinations of characters and diacritics. No OpenType or other proprietary data types are used, neither for fonts nor for output. Strictest possible ISO compliance is at the heart of Nanos' ability to work identically on many different computer platforms. Thanks to full ISO compliance, Nanos output can be used in web sites, XML processing and in fact as input for all up-to-date software packages that read text data, whether they be DTP layouting packages, word processors, data bases, graphics packages or indeed any other type of software. Read more...

... as proven and reliable software. Nanos is just one of a long line of software products that we have been producing since we started developing multilingual software in 1986. We are known for producing reliable software that actually improves productivity... All our software is developed either by or in close cooperation with academic specialists from the various fields who guarantee that our software does what it is supposed to do in the way it is supposed to. Nanos is a professional tool for every-day work that will make your Greek text editing considerably faster and easier. It is being used for a wide area of purposes such as in university departments, multimedia rooms in schools teaching classics, in teacher training departments, for German Abitur exams, class-room texts and work sheets, translation aids and commentaries, lectures, computational linguistics, web sites, digital libraries, manuscript databases, printing and publishing. Read more...