[B-Greek] Greek fonts with macron
John McChesney-Young
panis at pacbell.net
Wed Jun 28 22:45:14 EDT 2006
The following fonts on my system (Mac OS 10.2.8 - ancient, I know)
include Greek vowels with precombined macrons:
Alphabetum (including the free demo version, which is what I have)
Aisa Unicode
Alkaios
Aristarcoj
Cardo
Galatia SIL
Galilee Unicode
Gentium and Gentium Alt
Lucida Grande
New Athena Unicode
Porson
A few came with the OS, but most I've downloaded over the years as
(at least at the time) freeware, and I think most of those will work
on Windows machines too. I suggest you visit:
http://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0013314/greekg/fonts.htm
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.html
or Google the font names to find current sources for them.
Personally, I like Aristarcoj and Porson for italic-y fonts and
Alkaios and Gentium Alt for unslanted ones.
John
P.S. The adventurous might also consider LaTeX:
http://www.christopherculver.com/en/computing/latex.php
which lets you add diacritics like macrons (as does Unicode in
standard text editors/word processors, as found in the "Combining
Diacritical Marks" block). J.
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At 9:54 PM -0400 6/28/06, Shumaker, Dave R. wrote:
>Hello,
>I am looking for a good Greek font that has a nice macron to mark long
>vowels. Is anyone away of such a Greek font? ...
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*** John McChesney-Young ** panis~at~pacbell.net ** Berkeley,
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