[B-Greek] Better fonts to use with Unicode

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Mar 20 05:23:21 EDT 2008


On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:11 PM, vunzndi at vfemail.net (John Knightley)  
wrote:

> Dear Rev Doug Pickrel,
>
> the reason is because an ordinary emails does not include fonts - for
> alpha whatever the font, if the email is in unicode then it sends the
> number 945, for beta the number 946 etc.
>
> Attaching a document or file can be better choice. For example a rtf
> (rich text format) document/file includes the name of the font you
> used for each character and if the person who receives the file has
> the same fonts on their computer the document will look the same. The
> name "rich text" is because the text is enriched with extra
> information which among other things includes the size, font and
> colour of each character. If you wish the other person to see exactly
> the same as you then the solution is to attach a pdf file which has
> the fonts included in it. On windows one way to make a pdf file is to
> use CutePDF Writer, which i free and available
> http://www.cutepdf.com/download/CuteWriter.exe . After installing to
> make a pdf file you click on print and then choose CutePDF a s the
> printer and instead of printing on paper the result is printed in a
> pdf file, which anyone can read.

But don't try to send an attachment, PDF file or otherwise, to a  
message sent to B-Greek. It will not go through -- for the very good  
reason that attached files are endemic to spam and also frequently  
carriers of viruses.

Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List


>
>
> Quoting Revdougpickrel at aol.com:
>
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I've been watching this discussion.  May I add my two cents: I am   
>> operating
>> Window Vista/MSWord 2007.  I have no problem reading any Greek   
>> Font posted,
>> however I have problems sending.  It doesn't seem to make it   
>> through Yahoo.
>> Other words Yahoo screen out fonts and makes them whatever  it  
>> wishes.
>>
>> Rev. Doug  Pickrel, Litt.D.
>> Tejas Valley
>> San Antonio, Texas
>>
>>
>> Rev. Doug  Pickrel, Litt.D.
>> Tejas Valley
>> San Antonio,  Texas






More information about the B-Greek mailing list