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Philip Graber omc01091 at mail.wvnet.edu
Mon Dec 11 09:01:01 EST 2000


Rodney J. Decker wrote:

> And one correction: the Mounce font *is* still available:  
> <http://www.teknia.com/tekniasoftware/fonts/index.html>. The Mac 
> version is  a separate file; to get the Windows font I think you'll 
> have to download  one of Bill's programs, but get it you can. While 
> you're there, you might  also want to read Bill Mounce's comments 
> regarding the "Standard Font  Mapping Initiative" (linked at the above 
> URL). 

I'm not sure why this initiative is needed.  There is already a standard 
in Unicode.  If everyone who wants to do their own font would use the 
Unicode standard, they could feel free to write a little utility that 
allows users of their font to key it any way they want.  Silver Mountain 
Software (the people who do Bible Windows) have created such a font and 
such a utility that uses beta code keying to type Unicode.  Many of us 
are used to beta code (as, for example, in SMS's Sgreek font), but the 
unicode font looks better than Sgreek (or most of the Bible software 
fonts, in my opinion).  If a standard such as Unicode is used, that 
gives us the freedom to change fonts in documents for Greek text as 
easily as we do for other text without having to worry about different 
mappings.  Why doesn't Mounce do this?  Why invent yet another standard?

-- 
Philip Graber
Ronceverte, West Virginia USA




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