[B-Greek] B-Greek Better fonts to use with Unicode

Bert de Haan dehaanaf at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 20:27:01 EDT 2008


Like you noticed, they all look the same in the b-greek email and all
the letters have the the same height.
When I look at the same message in the archives each line is the same
again but every letter with a diacritic is higher.
I had the same problem with Perseus.
I asked about it and received an answer from a knowledgeable
computer/greek geek.  Here is the question and the answer I received.
Maybe it'll help you:


(Q)On the computer I used to have I had the font display for Perseus
set at SPIonics.
Now I have it on Unicode. Something is not right though. When I have
it set for the unicode with precombined accents, all letters with a
diacritical mark of any kind shows up bigger.......... .....

(A)That means the default font for your browser doesn't actually have
the full polytonic set, and is grabbing precombined characters from
some other font.......

Bert de Haan

> From: "Roman Caceres" <rc.info at fjclink.com>
> To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:02:46 -0600
> Subject: [B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode
> Hello all,
>
> I've been trying with different fonts for use with Unicode.
> Arial is not very nice because it has diferent heights for characters with diactritical marks:
>
> (Arial) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> Other fonts work better, such as:
>
> (Gentium) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> (Tahoma) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> (Palatino Lynotype) Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος...
>
> I hope this is useful.
>
> Roman
>
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