[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek
Mark Goodacre
goodacre at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 11:27:44 EST 2004
We've been having some discussion of this issue in the biblioblogs
too; one thing that got the discussion going there was an experience
I had with a session at the SBL at which one of the speakers had
produced a nice powerpoint presentation with lots of Greek in it, but
then he discovered that it would not show up on the PC onto which the
disk had been loaded. If he'd been using unicode, the problem would
not have arisen. (Also he could have embedded his font -- that would
also have solved the problem).
On the question of how difficult all this is, I remember feeling that
way a year or two ago. But one tip that needs underlining is Doug's
concerning the unicode classical Greek inputter at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tayl0010/letters_table_caretpos2.htm, a good
way of working with unicode Greek. I think Randall suggested that
this is a "point and click", but actually you can type into this
facility without trouble, and you can use it off-line.
Mark
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:04:32 +0200, R Yochanan Bitan Buth
<ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> For my work I need SGreek, EGreek, Bwgrkl, Vaticanus, Uncial ... all
> differently looking. Who will convert them for me into Unicode fonts?
> And what is the advantage then? Still the same number of fonts. So,
> even if I would be willing to convert my stuff to Unicode, I am unable
> to do it now.
>
> Best wishes
> Wieland
>
> The difference is needing to convert underlying text code in order to
> search or change fonts, versus having the same underlying text code
> for all of your documents. Meaning that searches and comparisons are
> automatic and font changing is as easy as changing Times Roman to
> Arial.
>
> ERRWSO
>
> Randall Buth
>
> Randall Buth, PhD
>
> Director, Biblical Language Center
>
> www.biblicalulpan.org
>
> and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
>
> Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
>
> ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
>
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