Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/15/06 20:15

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.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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