[B-Greek] Free Polytonic Uncial Greek Unicode Font?
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Sun Aug 6 21:56:59 EDT 2006
At 8:02 PM -0400 8/6/06, Jim Darlack wrote in part:
> ... I am interested in finding a free font, because
>I'm scanning in some old commentaries and resources
>that use a polytonic uncial font face to highlight
>various Greek words.
>
>The polytonic uncial font in Antioch is exactly what
>I'm after, but I'd rather use a "free" font, so that
>I can point a user to a free download that would let
>them view the web page with as much clarity as possible.
I had bcc'ed Ralph my post to the list, and he very kindly responded with:
The 6th c Codex Claromontanus in the French Bibliotheque Nationale,
which is bilingual in Greek and Latin, is fully marked with
diacritics, and indeed I based the diacritics in my uncial font on
this.
The uncial font isn't included in the *trial* version of Antioch that
you can download from
<http://www.hancock.dircon.co.uk/antioch.htm>www.hancock.dircon.co.uk/antioch.htm
(or the linked page ... antioch2.htm for the newer version which
most people now need). People who pay for the program are offered it,
among a selection of other fonts.
However, if any classicist needs this font, I'll be happy to supply
it to them directly, without the need to register Antioch. They
should write to me at my main email address
<mailto:hancock at dircon.co.uk>hancock at dircon.co.uk.
(end quote)
As I said, he's a prince of a fellow. :-)
Note that according to Metzger's _Text of the New Testament_ the
diacritics in Claromontanus were added in the ninth century by the
fourth of at least nine (!) correctors (p. 51 in the first ed.).
Rather than requiring a download of a new font, though, what about
simply using (say) all capitals for the highlighted words? Or just a
significantly different font for them if they're meant to be
distinguished in the context of other Greek words? Alternatively,
perhaps you could make the resources available in .pdf form,
embedding the fonts?
Best,
John
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