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Posted by Andrew on 07/16/06 05:45
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:15:31 +0300, "Jukka K. Korpela"
<jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>Andrew <sorry.no.email@post_NG.com> scripsit:
>
>> I have set a small sample of Ancient Greek that I was hoping an
>> obliging Linux user and an obliging Mac user could have a look at to
>> see if it renders ok. Screen capture would be great:
>>
>> http://www.andrews-corner.org/ancient_greek.html#greektest
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>> Windows and Mac should be ok
>
>Well, using Windows, I can see all the characters, but I'm not
>typographically happy with the appearance. The text seems to get displayed
>in Palatino Linotype, which looks partly odd. Some letters (especially
>lowercase alpha but also epsilon, pi and omega) are slanted, as if they were
>in italics, whereas many other characters are quite upright. This creates a
>somewhat unpleasant, if not slightly nauseating effect.
>
>I don't have any suggestion for improvement, since Arial Unicode MS is even
>worse for Greek, and there aren't many other fonts that support all of
>polytonic Greek.
>
>Maybe this is one of the cases where it would be best to let the user make
>the choice, even though this often means that the choice is chosen more or
>less "randomly" (the user accepts what he sees, at least unless it's really
>bad) and may even involve a mixture of fonts. I'm not sure whether an
>author's guess would generally be an improvement.
Hi Jukka,
Thanks very much for your comments. Palatino Linotype unfortunately
is the most widely available and clearest of fonts for Ancient Greek
in the Windows OS. I agree totally with the slanting effect seen to
the font, have a look at a well established Ancient Greek site that
uses Palatino Linotype, same effect:
http://www.mikrosapoplous.gr/eyripedes/medea/medeae1.htm
Oddly enough this site specifies Verdana for the Modern Greek
translation but this renders the accents poorly and there are no
breathing marks.
Still a battle to render Ancient Greek well I guess,
Thanks for your trouble,
Andrew.
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Andrew
http://www.andrews-corner.org/
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