Re. Greek fonts

Rod Decker (rdecker@bbc.edu)
Tue, 22 Oct 1996 07:37:55 -0400

Somi asked:
>
>Does anyone know what the software program is called that gives me greek and
>hebrew fonts for use with word 6.0? (Not the internet fonts. They place
>all the vowels and accents very inaccurately which can be frustrating at
>times.)

The best commercial fonts for both Greek and Hebrew are from Linguist's
Software, Dr. Phil Payne, PO Box 580, Edmonds, WA 98020, (206)775-1130,
fax 771-5911--but they aren't cheap: list is about $100 each.

A good alternative is to use the fonts that Bill Mounce provides with his
vocab. software and textbook. The Greek font is a TrueType font and can be
downloaded from:

http://www.ior.com/teknia/

His Hebrew font is only a bitmapped font, so is less useful.

Other sources of useable fonts are the various Bible software programs:
Accordance on the Mac platform and Logos on Windows (you didn't say which
you used). Both have good Greek and Hebrew fonts if you have the modules
that include Greek and Hebrew texts. (Logos has apparently even licensed
the Graeca font from Linguist's Software for v. 2.) Others on this list use
SMK Greek Keys (or some such name/font as that), but I'm not familiar with
that font.

Rod

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Rodney J. Decker, Asst. Prof./NT Baptist Bible Seminary
rdecker@bbc.edu Clarks Summit, PA
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