Fwd: [biblical-languages] Gentium - new font for polytonic Greek
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Sun Oct 27 08:37:36 EST 2002
I thought people might be interested in this.
Jonathan
>From: "David J. Perry" <perryd at telocity.com>
>To: "Biblical Languages" <biblical-languages at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: [biblical-languages] Gentium - new font for polytonic Greek
>Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:53:54 -0400
>Reply-To: "Biblical Languages" <biblical-languages at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>
>There is an excellent new font available that includes polytonic Greek
>(combining diacritics included as well as precomposed characters). See
>
>http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/
>
>The only downside that it doesn't include the newer additions to the
>Greek block such as the archaic koppa. But it's wonderful otherwise,
>and he even included two versions of the Greek circumflex (tilde-shaped,
>in the regular font, and half-circle à la Porson in the alternate font;
>see the Readme file). It has an italic companion and comes in both
>Windows and Mac versions. Good stuff!
>
>David
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