[B-Greek] OT: Publishable Fonts

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Sat Feb 26 08:58:05 EST 2005


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 07:25:19 -0600 <hyle at e-denton.com> writes:
> This is my 3rd attempt to post this. I don't know where they are 
> ending up.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hyle at e-denton.com [mailto:hyle at e-denton.com] 
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 10:26 AM
> To: 'B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org'
> Subject: Publishable Fonts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have finally switched over from a Mac to a PC. In the move, I had 
> to give
> up my old fonts (Linguist Software). So, I wonder, when working with 
> Word,
> what Greek and Hebrew (and Hieroglyphic) fonts are suitable for 
> print
> publishing? Would the publisher need to already be using the 
> selected fonts?
> What are the considerations, limitations, requirements, etc?
> 
> Thanks for any tips.
> 
> Will Wagers
> 
> Latitude 33.214N Longitude -97.132W
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I see we need to give you a lot of latitude :-) 

The SBL Hebrew font (available from www.sbl-site.org) is probably the
best Hebrew font out there, but the Ezra Sil (www.sil.org) is also good. 
For Greek I generally use Arial Unicode MS, but it isn't quite so freely
available as it once was.  You might try the Gentium font (also available
through a link on the SIL site) or Titus Cyberbit Basic (google it). 
Then there is Porson (google) and Palatino Linotype (Looks good, but I
think I've found a problem with this font) -- google.  As regards
publishing, a unicode font is a unicode font is a unicode font as far as
interchangeability is concerned.  I would suggest you get as many of them
as you can find.

george
gfsomsel
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