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Son of WinGreek - another Greek font package

Here is an announcement for "Son of WinGreek" that was forwarded to me by
Robin Cover from SIL. I downloaded the fonts, and they seem pretty nice, but
I haven't used them much.

Jonathan

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Son of WinGreek is here!

Classical Greek scholars who use WinGreek have been dismayed to find that
its 'Beta' keyboard utility doesn't work in Windows 95. The author has no
plans to make a new version. Other classical Greek programs use different
character sets, so that they can't read documents that were made with
WinGreek. Result - impasse.

That's all changed now. Neil Beshoori of NRB Systems, author of the popular
keyboard utility WinKeySwap, and Ralph Hancock, designer of the Greek Old
Face font for use with WinGreek, have joined forces to make a successor to
the program, which we have called Son of WinGreek. It works in both Win 95
and Win 3.x, and with US, British, German and other keyboard layouts. The
current version is for Greek only, and comes with full instructions.

Son of WinGreek uses a simplified 'dead key' system for diacriticals which,
with a little practice, allows faster typing. The 13 most commonly used
combinations are assigned to the numeral row at the top of the keyboard. A
small chart is provided which can be printed out and laid above these keys
as a reminder. The system gives access to every character, including the
numerals themselves and a few extra symbols that don't even exist in the
original WinGreek font.

Son of WinGreek is distributed in a package with the Greek Old Face font in
Type 1 and TT versions. It is sold as shareware with a registration fee of
US$20 or equivalent in any hard currency.

You can get Son of WinGreek by FTP:

ftp://ftp.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub/institute/evtheol/sowg.exe

or download it from the web:

http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/SoWG.html

or from CompuServe:

Program Title:     SON OF WINGREEK
Registration ID:   15533
Fee (US$):         20.00

Available for registration via SWREG - simply connect to Compuserve and GO
SWREG, then enter details as above.

The program will also be in the following fora:

Foreign Languages Forum
GO: FLEFO
Library 4: Latin/Greek

Desktop Publishing Forum
GO: DTPFOR
Library 12: Program Demos


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