[B-Greek] Re: Unicode for typing Greek
Mark Goodacre
goodacre at gmail.com
Thu Dec 9 13:35:09 EST 2004
> I am not sure. Say, I need Unicode BWgrkl, Unicode EGreek, Unicode
> Vaticanus, Unicode Uncial. Are all these fonts available? Certainly not.
> What I wanted to say is that if you simply need some Greek characters,
> you could use the Symbol font or ANY Unicode Greek font, but if you need
> differently looking Greek fonts, you need different Unicode fonts as
> well, so, same problem.
Sure, but I suppose that in the case in question he was not so
concerned that it was a particular Greek font that he liked the look
of, but rather that he wanted the Greek (any Greek!) to show up. I
wouldn't have thought that there is any great advantage to EGreek or
BWgrkl in terms of the look of these fonts over a unicode font, is
there? So I assume that your issue is over the time-consuming nature
of conversion, and that I can fully sympathise with. But think of it
also this way. Say someone has been to one your excellent web pages,
has found that they cannot view the Greek and decide that they cannot
be bothered to download EGreek, or whatever, and leave never to
return. That's a very different experience from the punter who
visits, sees everything there in Greek because its unicode, and is
happy to visit again. In my experience, it is about 9 out of 10
scholars and graduate students who simply will not make the effort to
download Greek fonts, have trouble downloading them etc. We need to
remember that people like us who enjoy such things, who are prepared
to make the effort, are the exception rather than the rule.
> > (Also he could have embedded his font -- that
> > would also have solved the problem).
>
> Can you embed in PowerPoint? Never looked for that option.
Yes, it's as easy as doing it in Word, though implemented a little
differently. When you save a presentation, you click on "Tools" in
the "Save as" box (top right hand corner) and one of the options is to
"Embed true type fonts". Compulsory for anyone not using unicode.
Best wishes
Mark
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