Posted by Nikita the Spider on 07/16/06 18:43

In article <hj7oo3-985.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200606@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> > I have tentatively set the fonts for the Greek at:
> > Linux: Porson, "Athena Unicode", Gentium;
>
> I don't have any of those fonts on my system -- the text in question seems
> to render in "Palatino Linotype". A better choice would probably be
> "Bitstream Vera Sans" which has a good Greek repetoire and is almost
> universally included with recent Linux distributions. Feel free to put it
> right at the front of your font list as virtually no Windows or Mac
> machines will have it installed.

I have Bitstream Vera Sans, Vera Serif, and Sans Mono installed here
under OS X. My guess is that arrived as part of my NeoOffice install, or
perhaps I even installed them way back when installed the X11 version of
OpenOffice. (NeoOffice is OpenOffice for the Mac.)

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