[B-Greek] Greek font question
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 16:48:48 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characters have been replaced by these little empty boxes.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.
For Perry
You've just illustrated the importance of using UNICODE,
or not.
PWS ALLAKSAI; how to change?
First, make sure that your machine is properly configured.
(Then find out about whatever your friends have been sending you.)
Go to Control Panel
Open Regional Options and Languages
(or whatever close it's called in English)
Open Language folder
Open text and language details
click on add
Find "Greek Polytonic" or "Polytonic Greek" in language menu. click.
Add and apply.
At text and language details when Greek Polytonic is selected in the scroll
window, ADD keyboard.
Choose Greek Polytonic.
Apply, OK, etc.
Your computer will now have Greek as a second keyboard input option.
Left-Alt + shift will toggle between Greek and English input.
Go to Microsoft and download the Greek Polytonic Keyboard layout in
order to see all of the keystroke configurations.
Palatino will be on the computer and give you a good starting font.
Check out Gentium Alt on the web. Plus several others. Always
choose Polytonic fonts for your documents.
[[Between the lines: don't use SPIONIC or a non-unicode font,
and find a unicode conversion program for your old files,
there are several available. You will want to add
Unicode UTF-8 to your browser's encoding properties, too.]]
For Hebrew, repeat the above and 'add Right to Left support'. You may
need a Windows CD for this.Then 'ADD' input language and choose
Hebrew. It should add a keyboard but if you need to add one, choose
Hebrew, Hebrew standard, or Hebrew Israeli. (Don't choose
Hebrew-qwerty. If you do, you wont be able to touch type on a
Hebrew typewriter keyboard or Hebrew computer system, EVER. :-)
ερρωσο
ERRWSO
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Randall Buth, PhD
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