[B-Greek] B-Greek Better fonts to use with Unicode
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 25 06:16:51 EDT 2008
Judge for yourself. Copy a passage in Greek into Word then format it as Arial. After you have done that select a vowel with an accent or a breathing, highlight it and check the font type. You will find that it is NOT Arial.
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com>
To: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] B-Greek Better fonts to use with Unicode
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:06 PM, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I must have missed this post until Oun Kwon copied it in his post. Normally
> I don't use the "Insert Symbol" option but rather either type the characters
> myself or copy and paste them from another source. I therefore had to check
> this before I could respond. When I attempt to use "Insert Symbol" in MS
> Word 2003, I find the Extended Greek subset for Arial Unicode MS which I
> have frequently used. Plain Jane Arial, however, does not have the Extended
> Greek as you noted. I have never recommended plain Arial for polytonic
> Greek. If you attempt to use Arial, you will not succeed. It would be
> better for you to use Tahoma or to download another of the fonts supporting
> polytonic Greek which I and others have recommended.
>
>
> george
> gfsomsel
>
George, why do you say, 'you will not succeed (with Arial)'? I don't
experience any trouble with it at all. What kind of problem you have
in mind? I do not like Tahoma that it has the same shape for P in
capital and small letter.
Oun.
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