[B-Greek] Unicode for typing Greek

gfsomsel at juno.com gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Dec 1 11:26:38 EST 2004


On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:19:47 -0500 sandra hack polaski
<shpolaski at btsr.edu> writes:
> I use Bible Windows software (no endorsement, just information) and 
> I've
> gotten used to their simplest font, SGreek, for routine Greek 
> typing
> (including class handouts, tests, and so forth). But in trying to 
> post
> handouts to a course website (in Adobe Acrobat, so students won't
> necessarily have to acquire a particular Greek font, for all the 
> reasons
> that have been cited on this list before about computer capability 
> issues),
> I've finally figured out that SGreek won't imbed in Acrobat, and 
> I've been
> advised to move to a Unicode Greek font.
> 
> So now I'm over my head. Are all Unicode fonts embeddable? What 
> choices do I
> have, where do I find them, and where do I get a keyboard map 
> (perhaps the
> most important part, since I'm going to have to re-learn my Greek 
> typing)?
> Is there a site where someone's already answered all these 
> questions? I
> don't think this question is too off-topic, but since it's about 
> computer
> use and not strictly about Greek per se, I'd welcome replies 
> off-list if
> that's more appropriate. Many thanks.
> 
> Sandra Hack Polaski
> Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
> Richmond, Virginia
> ---

I generally use Arial Unicode MS for Greek, but it is an absolutely huge
font which is no longer freely available (It comes with Microsoft
Publisher).  You might try Titus Cyberbit Basic which is freely available

http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp

I don't know if it can be embedded or not -- give it a test drive.  There
is also the gentium font which can be located through the SIL site
(www.sil.org).  For typing Greek and Hebrew I use Unitype GlobalWriter
(www.unitype.com), but the Tavultesoft keyboard is free
(http://www.tavultesoft.com/). 

george
gfsomsel



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