Greek fonts with papyrological symbols
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Polycarp66 at aol.com
Thu Apr 18 21:46:52 EDT 2002
In a message dated 4/18/2002 12:58:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
t.j.kraus at web.de writes:
due to some computer problems with my Mac and in regard of some deadlines
for publication I am in desperate need of a Greek font with papyrological
symbols/signs, above all the dot underneath letters and the stroke above
letters to indicate doubtful readings and nomina sacra/figures.
Moreover and in hope that my iBook will recover soon, I still have not found
an adequate Greek font with papyrological items as mentioned above to run
under Mac OS X with Office v. X versions applications. Some of the fonts I
tried did not work or supply with the items needed.
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You might try <A HREF="ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/">ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/</A>. They have fonts (free) for both
MAC and Windows. The SPAtlantis has characters which can be used to mark
some letters (a lot of font switching - also, you may need to make them bold
to get them to line up over/under the preceding letter). The SPCaesarea has
some characters which might be useful (or maybe not). The SIL fonts might be
helpful - though I have some doubts. They have them for both the MAC and
Windows platforms. You can obtain them at <A HREF="http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/index.html">
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/index.html</A>. They don't seem to
have much in the way of "mark-up" type glyphs. It's too bad that they don't
seem to be as far advanced on the MAC with unicode and on the PC (I don't
believe, though I may be wrong). A single good unicode font could probably
solve all your problems. Otherwise, I don't know much about fonts for the
MAC (I assume that the SP and SIL fonts are basically the same on both
platforms).
gfsomsel
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