[B-Greek] Greek font question

Perry Stepp plstepp at kcu.edu
Wed Apr 9 15:54:50 EDT 2008


A question for the more technically-minded list members:

Why do my Greek and Hebrew fonts keep falling out of my manuscripts?

I'm using a school computer and school software.  Word, MS Office 2003; I'm
using the Scholars Press fonts, SPIonic, etc.  

When I open a document that was written on another computer, even though I'm
using the same version of Word (not the same version of Windoze, our new
computers have XP Pro) and the same fonts, all the Greek and Hebrew
characters have been replaced by these little empty boxes.  

I'm trying to work with old documents, editing them into a new manuscript,
and I need the Greek to work.  Very frustrating.  And there doesn't seem to
be a way to recover the document with the Greek intact.

What causes this?  Is there a remedy, or a way to recover the inflected
Greek?  

Are there Greek fonts that are more stable than SPIonic, which WON'T
collapse and fall out of my documents?

PLS

Perry L. Stepp, Ph.D.
 
Dean, Sack School of Bible & Ministry
Associate Professor, Bible & Theology
Kentucky Christian University
 
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