Jonathan
P.S., since it is possible to specify fonts for messages viewed in the
B-Greek archive, we could use these to allow Greek letters in B-Greek
messages. They will be available for both Mac and Windows.
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>We hadn't done so yet, since we hadn't actually released anything. But you're
>right. When I'm a little more sure of a release date I'll write something
>formally. What we plan to release is actually a complete system of a range of
>fonts (real greek and translit, and a special apparatus font with lots of
>characters that you would find in a critical text) in bold, italic, etc. the
>usual expected of good quality fonts. A keyboarding solution using an SIL
>utility called Keyman that will handle *almost* all conceivable ways of keying
>greek characters and a Mac equivalent utility called SIL Key. We are also
>providing GX fonts on the Mac with WorldScript stuff. Then to polish it off
>we've drafted an encoding standard that is 7-bit based for transport between
>platforms, with utilities that will convert text in that format to a
"composite"
>encoding that our fonts will use and back again. (The Mac GX fonts though are
>based on the standard encoding, since they have the smarts to deal with that.)
>
>As you can see we've tried to develop a comprehensive solution. We're pretty
>close to release for the Greek fonts, though we still need some touchup on the
>conversion utilities, and we need to implement the Mac version of the
keyboard.
>The Hebrew version of this project is well under weigh as well, but has a
number
>of other difficulties that will take some time to deal with.
>
>If you'd like to post/quote even what I've just written on the list, feel free
>to do so - we just don't want people beating down our doors with continual
>requests. One of the advantages we have is that we have a professional quality
>font house 'inhouse' in the form of our International Publications Dept. who
>have been doing specialized font solutions for years for our translation
>projects.
>
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