[B-Greek] where can I find a download

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Sat Sep 30 17:26:11 EDT 2006


Yes, what George said.  :-D  It's best not to propagate any of the dozen 
systems of encoding Greek that different scholarly programs came up 
with.  Unicode has emerged as a standard that is slowly but surely 
bringing sanity and portability to the way we read and type Greek 
texts.  Not to mention Hebrew, Syriac, etc etc.  You didn't say what OS 
you're running but if it's XP, yes it's possible to add polytonic Greek 
to the language bar instead of the default monotonic.

I hope to see the various scholarly softwares within the next couple of 
versions moving to Unicode-only texts.  Of course some programs have 
special needs to encode other types of information, but there are ways 
to do that without making up another nonstandard way of doing Greek.  Or 
at least ways of making sure that when the user exports text from a 
program, it's in proper Unicode at that point.  BibleWorks 7 has a 
button that does this, but it's still more complicated than it needs to be.

I imagine many of us hope to see things like email applications all 
natively recognizing unicode, but it's not quite there yet.  It'd be 
interesting to have some stats on where that process is.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com

George F Somsel wrote the following on 9/30/2006 12:27 PM:
> I believe you can also do polytonic Greek.  What would be involved is to set your language to Greek and use a unicode font supporting polytonic Greek.  There are a number of such fonts:  Arial Unicode MS, Gentium, Cardo, Galilee, and Titus Cyberbit Basic come to mind offhand.  All of these except for Arial Unicode can be freely downloaded over the internet.  I am not sure that Technia Greek is a true unicode compliant font since I seem to recall reading something to the contrary.  If it isn't, I wouldn't use it for anything other than READING text already encoded with it.  I'm not an expert in font matters so someone  else may wish to correct this.
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> I use microsoft word, and I can change to modern greek in the language, and I can change fonts to teknia greek, but I want to be able to change the language to teknia greek, is that possible? so that way I can switch when needed. thanks everyone I love this site.
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