NT Gateway, Paidagogos & Tyndale Font Kit

Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Tue Oct 3 12:43:25 EDT 2000


Because of the recent expansion of my Greek NT Gateway 
(NTGateway.com/greek), I've decided to draw attention to 
some of the newer links on my "Featured Links" page at 
http://www.ntgateway.com/featured.htm.  One of the new 
resources is Paidagogos by Tony Larsson, a nice tool to help 
the novice learn the alphabet 
(http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl8tlars/PedEng.html).

I've also drawn special attention to the "Tyndale Font Kit" 
(http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Download/Font_Kit.exe), 
assembled by David Instone Brewer.  It combines SPIonic 
(Scholars Press Greek font), SPTiberian (Scholars Press 
Hebrew font) with RTL (right to left) keyboard & added 
functionality for SPIonic, e.g. get a theta when you type "th", 
or get final sigma, smooth breathings etc. added 
automatically.  I've spent a bit of time with this kit and am 
beginning to get used to it.  Those used to using SPIonic will 
find it tough at first because several of the key-strokes have 
been altered, e.g. H is now a rough breathing rather than an 
eta.  But I suspect that those who have not used SPIonic 
before will find the revisions helpful.  I'd be very interested to 
hear others' opinions on this font kit.  I get a lot of 
correspondence asking me about options for fonts and I am 
wondering whether this font kit might provide a one-stop 
solution for scholars and students.  Any thoughts?

Mark
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  Dept of Theology                tel: +44 121 414 7512
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