[B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode
John Schwandt
jschwandt at nsa.edu
Wed Mar 19 01:39:39 EDT 2008
Palatino Linotype is included in Word 2003 and 2007. It has the full set of Unicode accented Greek characters. It isn't my favorite font but it works on nearly every machine out there.
I like Minion Pro which comes free with Acrobat Reader. Minion Pro is not installed automatically but the font is there (among the Acrobat Reader files) if you want a really nice Unicode font.
Blessings,
John Schwandt
-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Oun Kwon
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:27 PM
To: B-Greek
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode
Of note on Arial vs. Tahoma Greek fonts in MS Word.
In MS Word 2003, when the whole of a file in Greek text was converted
into Arial, the accented characters are put into Tahoma. That means
there is no accented Gk appear in Arial font. Now, with Word 2007,
Arial font is complete with both non-accented and accented ones.
[I prefer Arial because the character PI π (small case) has the upper
horizontal bar extends beyond the two vertical strokes. In Tahoma, the
upper and lower cases are of same appearance of an upside down U.]
The only defect in MS Word (both 2003 and 2007) dealing with these
(and possible other) Greek fonts is that upper and lower case change
is only possible with non-accented characters. To change them requires
you manually type in.
Oun.
2008/3/17 Roman Caceres <rc.info at fjclink.com>:
> Hello again,
>
> I realized that apparently there is a filter for html content type in the
> list so all the fonts I sent look the same....
>
> If this is correct, only text emails are permited and one solution to see
> "even" characters would be to change the font the email client uses by
> default when reading the messages.
>
> Roman
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roman Caceres" <rc.info at fjclink.com>
> To: "B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:02 AM
> 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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