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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