Fonts, SPIonic and the Web

Mark Goodacre (M.S.GOODACRE@bham.ac.uk)
Fri, 15 May 1998 15:39:24 GMT

Following on from the conversation here (and on Graphai) about fonts,
I am sure that James Adair will not mind my sharing with you the
following list of web sites that utilise the SPIonic font:

> TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism - http://purl.org/TC
>
> The Early Church Fathers - http://ccel.wheaton.edu/fathers2
> (sporadic Greek, mostly in the intros to the various volumes)
>
> The Hellenistic Greek Linguistics Page - http://www.entmp.org/HGrk
> (look under "Online Hellenistic Greek Grammar)
>
> Biblical Studies on the Web - http://www.bsw.org
>
> A Dictionary of the English Language (Samuel Johnson) -
> http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/johnson/main.html
>
> Koinonia Journal (Princeton Theological Seminary Graduate Forum)
> http://www.ptsem.edu/read/koinonia/web_edition_specials.html

The uncomfortable solution that I have so far gone for in my own web
materials (e.g. at http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/q.htm) is to use
the <FONT FACE="symbol"> tag, but symbol does not have breathings,
accents or iota subscripts (etc.).

I have used SPIonic for word-processing quite happily for some time
and am wondering now about going over to it for web materials, and
providing a link to the download page. One of my concerns, however,
is that Netscape Navigator 4 with Windows 95 on my machine does not
seem to display it, though Microsoft Internet Explorer does (and so
too does Netscape Navigator 3 with Windows 3.1). Does anyone else
have this problem? If so, can it be easily overcome? I do not want
to go over to SPIonic for web materials unless I am sure that
everyone is going to be able to view it without alot of trouble.

One more useful titbit: the following URL
(one of the Hellenistic Greek Linguistics pages) provides a most
useful chart of the SPIonic Character Coding:

http://www.entmp.org/HGrk/webfont/SPIonic.shtml

Mark
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Dr Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre@bham.ac.uk
Dept of Theology, University of Birmingham
Homepage: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre.htm