From: Maurice A. O'Sullivan (mauros@iol.ie)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 14:11:52 EDT
<x-flowed>At 19:02 15/06/00, Mark Goodacre wrote:
>I am also happy to
>see, following a link from there, that someone has uploaded a key
>map for SPIonic
>(http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/blSPIkeymap.htm).
Mark:
Yes, that is a useful facility -- however, ALLl the SP fonts are available
with an associated .readme text file, as explained below [ to be found at
:ftp://ftp.sbl-site.org/pub/fonts/
Of course, I can see what has happened in the past --- the .ttf file has
been passed around, having been unzipped from a file which also contained
the .readme file <g>
>>>>>>>>>
The Society of Biblical Literature currently has eight
public domain fonts, developed initially by Scholars
Press, available for use by anyone who would like to
download them. Three are Hebrew/Aramaic fonts:
SPTiberian (our standard Hebrew font)
SPDamascus (a thinner font with Palestinian as well as Tiberian
vowel points)
SPEzra (a simple, fixed-width Hebrew font).
There are two Greek fonts:
SPIonic (a more complete Greek font)
SPDoric (a simpler, uncial font).
Other fonts are:
SPEdessa (a Syriac Estrangela font)
SPAchmim (a Coptic font)
SPAtlantis (a transliteration font that includes diacriticals and
other
special characters that allow the representation of numerous
Indo-European, Semitic, and other languages--this font is
available
in both Roman and Italic type).
All of these fonts are TrueType fonts, and each is available in both
Macintosh and Windows formats. Each font also has associated with it
a .readme file that explains the keyboard mapping of the font.
The Michigan-Claremont encoding scheme is the basis for the character
maps used in the Hebrew/Aramaic and Syriac fonts, and the Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae encoding scheme is the basis for the Greek and Coptic
fonts.
In the mac directory, the fonts have been compressed using Stuffit and
encoded in ASCII using BinHex (hence the .sit.hqx extension).
They can be unstuffed and un-BinHexed by using Stuffit Expander.
Fonts in the windows directory appear in uncompressed (.TTF),
compressed (gzipped) (.TTF.gz), and zipped (.TTF.zip) forms.
A gzip utility, which is available in the windows directory,
must be used to uncompress the .gz files.
For more information on the encoding schemes mentioned above,
see http://purl.org/TC/TC-translit.html
We hope you can make good use of these fonts.
>>>>>>>>>>
Regards,
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros@iol.ie
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