[sword-devel] Re: Greek accents

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Awesome!  Thanks for all this info!  We've been throwing around ideas on 
our developers' forum.  I'll forward your findings.  Missed the 
screenshot, though.  Looking forward to spending some time together soon!

	-Troy.



Christian Computer Art wrote:
> I've had a play with the Greek fonts. The problem is, as I suggested, that the unicode fonts given 
> free with Windows are not good enough. The best one is Arial, which your style sheet encourages 
> Windows to use. But even Arial is no good at the more complex combinations of breathings and 
> accents, which are quite common in accented NTs. Modern Greek doesn't bother with them, so Arial 
> doesn't bother. 
> 
> You need to persuade people to get a 'scholarly' unicode font. I recommend the free Cardo font, 
> which has very good Hebrew as well as superlative Greek and all the rare medieval symbols found in 
> theological texts. The font style of the Latin part is very similar to Times, and the Greek is a 
> good compromise between being simple enough to look good on the screen and fancy enough to look 
> good on paper. 
> 
> The only free font which is better is TITUS, which has Syriac as well as Hebrew and Greek. But each 
> user has to sign a personal declaration, so you can't just put the font on your web page, ready for 
> download. 
> 
> The Cardo font is available from David Perry's site, but I would recommend that they download it as 
> part of the Tyndale Unicode Font Kit, which includes keyboards and an installation program 
> - see http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale/Fonts.htm
> That will give them an easy way to write Hebrew & Greek, as well as read your web pages. 
> 
> Change the style sheet to read: 
> font-family: Cardo,"Trebuchet MS", verdana, lucida, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; 
> 
> You also need to tell them to make the Browser use Cardo. For IE6: 
> Click on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Fonts"
> For the Language Script "Latin based" set the "Web page font" to "Cardo"
> 
> I attach a screenshot. I made it by copying the source of a page and inserting the font-family 
> line. 
> It also works wonders for your Hebrew, which looks OK but ugly with Windows fonts. 
> 
> 
> David
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