[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek
Timrake at aol.com
Timrake at aol.com
Thu Dec 9 13:11:58 EST 2004
Again, a newbie. I have a Mac OSX (10.2.8) and a Mac laptop (OSX 10.3.2). I
currently use an old Accordance program--which will update this coming
year--and I am interested to know what fonts or program (I don't know what this
Unicode is either) for my computers are needed? Accordance has its fonts, of course,
but as I open documents from other programs often the fonts are different.
At any rate, can/will anyone provide (preferably from experience) suggestions
or instructions regarding all this? E.g., "What you need is . . . and you can
get it from . . . and then put it in your . . . and then 'presto' everything
will be hunky dory (and your insurance premiums will also decrease)."
Pr. Tim Rake
Praise Lutheran Church
Maryville, TN
In a message dated 12/9/04 10:44:02 AM, willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de writes:
> >From what I read I can only conclude:
> This Unicode thingy is
> 1. difficult to understand
> 2. difficult to use
> 3. user-unfriendly
> 4. incompatible
>
> Now, don't tell me I have to use it because it is the future or it makes
> things easier.
> :-)
> There are a few good Greek fonts out there. Everybody in the field has
> them. Why do we need something else? Well, ok, perhaps for webpages with
> Greek it might be good, but else?
>
> 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
>
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