[B-Greek] font issues with a Mac

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Aug 21 07:54:20 EDT 2006


On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:59 AM, Christopher Shelton wrote:

> To One and All--
>      A friend of mine has problems installing Greek fonts in a  
> Mac.  I don't have a Mac and none of our other members do, either.   
> She wants to install Arial Unicode MS and SPIonic.  Are there any  
> suggestions for her?

If she already has the fonts and is using OS X, she need only click  
on the fonts and click again in response to the question whether she  
wants to install them into the Font Book application; the fonts are  
then immediately available in any application she will open.

However, if she wants to type in these fonts she'll need a Keyboard  
and some font resources.

Resources worth consulting are:

http://www.wordherd.com/keyboards/

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html

http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/unicode.htm

http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/Play/GkUnicode.html

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/

A particularly useful (and free) tool for converting texts using  
older Greek fonts to Unicode polytonic Greek fonts is the "Greek  
Transcoder" which works with MS Word 2004:

http://www.greektranscoder.org/




Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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