[b-greek] Re: Greek fonts with papyrological symbols

From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 21:46:52 EDT

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<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica>In a message dated 4/18/2002 12:58:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, t.j.kraus@web.de writes:
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<BR>due to some computer problems with my Mac and in regard of some deadlines
<BR>for publication I am in desperate need of a Greek font with papyrological
<BR>symbols/signs, above all the dot underneath letters and the stroke above
<BR>letters to indicate doubtful readings and nomina sacra/figures.
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<BR>Moreover and in hope that my iBook will recover soon, I still have not found
<BR>an adequate Greek font with papyrological items as mentioned above to run
<BR>under Mac OS X with Office v. X versions applications. Some of the fonts I
<BR>tried did not work or supply with the items needed. &nbsp;
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<BR>You might try ftp://ftp.sbl-site2.org/fonts/. They have fonts (free) for both MAC and Windows. &nbsp;The SPAtlantis has characters which can be used to mark some letters (a lot of font switching - also, you may need to make them bold to get them to line up over/under the preceding letter). &nbsp;The SPCaesarea has some characters which might be useful (or maybe not). &nbsp;The SIL fonts might be helpful - though I have some doubts. &nbsp;They have them for both the MAC and Windows platforms. &nbsp;You can obtain them at http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/index.html. &nbsp;They don't seem to have much in the way of "mark-up" type glyphs. &nbsp;It's too bad that they don't seem to be as far advanced on the MAC with unicode and on the PC (I don't believe, though I may be wrong). &nbsp;A single good unicode font could probably solve all your problems. &nbsp;Otherwise, I don't know much a
bout fonts for the MAC (I assume that the SP and SIL fonts are basically the same on both platforms).
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<BR>gfsomsel
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