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- Greek Fonts For Windows
Computer advancements have made Greek typography a very complex issue. Since Greek has different characters than English, people produced different fonts that used different key strokes for the Greek alphabet. These fonts (now called non-Unicode or legacy fonts) competed with each other since the Greek written with was not easily transferable to any other font style. Further people just grew accustomed to a particular keyboard layout for typing in Greek. Both of these reasons pushed Greek users to pick one font and stick with it.
The emergence of the Internet revealed the core problem with this legacy system. Not everyone used the same font so web pages would not display legible Greek text for everyone.
In an effort to standardize all languages for a world computing audience Unicode has been developed. Unfortunately, most Unicode fonts did not include Greek characters with accents. Now new Unicode fonts are finally emerging to assist those who wish to compute in ancient or biblical Greek. Below are various topics and links which address various aspects of this Greek font saga.
Avant Greek TrueType (avant.zip)) Download the font file or files to your disk and execute the relative '.exe' to extract the appropriate fonts. From the Control Panel, double-click on Fonts icon, and press the Add button. Select the fonts that you would like to install and click OK.
1. Polytonic Unicode Greek Fonts
All of these links have free Greek fonts which include accented characters for ancient or biblical Greek. Please contact the site manager if any links are broken or the font is no longer offered. They are listed in order of aesthetics and universality.
Free Font Download Sites
Free Unicode Fonts – This page has numerous free Unicode fonts with examples of each so you can see if you like the font before you download it. It is a fantastic page!
Links for Unicode Fonts – This page has numerous free Unicode fonts with examples of each so you can see if you like the font before you download it. It is very helpful.
Gentium – This font has both PC and MAC versions available.
Minion Pro – This font is a wonderful professional font that used to cost $100 but is now available free with Acrobat Reader version 7. To get the font, install Acrobat Reader version 7 then look in the resource folder where acrobat reader was installed. I will probably be at this address on your computer: C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0ResourceFont. You will see the Minon files. You still must install the fonts so your system will recognize them. For windows users, open control panel, switch to classic view, scroll down to fonts, and then copy the minion fonts into your fonts folder.
Galilee Unicode Gk – Rodney Decker created this font. It is very similar to MS Arial Unicode. All of the letters, accents and breathings are very legible.
Code 2000 – It doesn’t look quite as refined as Gentium but it is polytonic Unicode nevertheless.
Athena – I believe this is the Unicode version of this font.
About Greek Unicode Fonts
Unicode Polytonic Greek – A great explanation of how Unicode woks and way it is necessary.
Recent Unicode History – A brief overview of the development of Unicode and its Greek applications.
Extended Character Helps – A number of helpful links for many areas regarding Greek extended characters.
Extended Character List – Allen Wood has a very nice list of the codes for the extended characters and a list of Unicode fronts for PCs, MACs, and Unix systems.
Unicode Consortium – This site explains the rudiments of Unicode.
MAC Browser Instructions – This page gives instructions for setting browsers on MACs to view polytonic Unicode fonts.
HRI Project – Read, Write, Print and Email in Greek Unicode – This page has a list of several links that provide installation and usage instructions on reading, writing and printing in Greek, as well as some tips on how to email in Greek, and spell check your Greek text. (Windows, Unix, MAC)
Arial Greek (arial.zip)
Times New Roman Greek (times.zip)
Avant Greek TrueType (avant.zip))
Download the font file or files to your disk and execute the relative '.exe' to extract the appropriate fonts.
From the Control Panel, double-click on Fonts icon, and press the Add button.
Select the fonts that you would like to install and click OK.
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Fonts. Select Greek in the 'Language Script' area.
At the Web-page font select a Greek one you have extracted e.g. Arial Greek and at the Fixed-width font select Courier New.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
Go to: Tools - Internet Options - Languages. Add the greek language at the list and put it at the top.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Encoding - Greek ISO, or View - Encoding - Greek (Windows). Also, if the Autoselect option is checked, uncheck it.
Greek font for Mac (mac_928.sit.hqx)
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Downolad and decompress the file. After decompression place new fonts in the fonts folder, which is in your system folder.
Netscape (versions 4.5 and higher):
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts.
Here, you should change 'For the Encoding' to Greek,and select fonts (from the new installed) for the Variable Width Font and the Fixed Width Font. For the 'Sometimes a document will provide its own fonts.' option, select Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts.
Select the language that should be used by the browser.
To do this, you need to select Edit - Preferences - Navigator - Languages.
Here, you should add the Greek language and put it on top of the list.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set - Greek ISO-8859-7. Also select View - Character Set - Set Default Encoding.
Microsoft Internet Explorer Versions 5.x:
Select the fonts that should be used by the browser for the Greek encoding.
Go to: Edit - Preferences - Languages/Fonts. Add Greek language in the list.
Select one font from those you've just installed at the fonts selections.
Select ISO 8859-7 as the default Character set.
Select a default encoding.
To do this, you need to select View - Character Set - Greek ISO 8859-7.
Windows Greek keyboard installation
Go to: Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Langage options -> tab Languages -> button Details. You will probably have only English there, so if you do not see Greek, click on Add..., and select Greek from the list.
You should now see GR Greek Greek. There are various layouts available, highlight the line for Greek, and click on Properties, there you can select other Greek keyboard layouts, like Polytonic Greek (applicable only to Windows XP).
Before clicking the OK button, choose which key combination you want for the Switch languages option, I prefer Ctrl+Shift but you can have Left Alt+Shift. So select whichever you want and make sure that the 'Enable indicator in taskbar' option is checked. Also, depending on which language you will be using more often, you can chose to set one of the languages as the default (indicating which keyboard driver should be active when Windows starts up).
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download Greek font for LinuxHow to use the Greek keyboard:
Use Ctrl+Shift or Left Alt+Shift to switch between the English and Greek keyboards or any other installed keyboards. To type an accented vowel, press the ';' (semicolon) key and then the vowel (separately). To use the diaeresis (like umlaut) accent, press ':' (colon - that is, Shift+semicolon) before the vowel.
To use both diaeresis and accent on ι ( ΐ ) and υ (ΰ), press Right Alt+Shift+: before the vowel. To type ';' (the Greek question mark) and ':' (colon / ano-kato teleia) you need to press 'Q' and 'SHIFT-Q' respectively.
The Greek semicolon ('ano teleia') is missing as it was not included by ELOT in the Greek standards! There is a trick however to add it to your keyboard. From Word for Windows go to Insert -> Symbol -> and find the Greek semicolon symbol (8th line 7th character from the left) -> Select Shortcut Key -> In the field Press New Shortcut Key press the keys Ctrl+Shift+colon (the key immediately to the right of the 'L' key) -> Click Assign. This is it. From now on the Greek semicolon will appear on Word when you press Ctrl+Shift+colon.
In some applications, Left Alt+Shift may not switch keyboards. You may be able to manually switch the keyboard by clicking the 'En' or 'Gr' icon in the taskbar or select and use the alternative keyboard shortcut provided which is Ctrl+Shift.
Using the Greek keys
You can use a utility like Microsoft Visual keyboard if you are confused as to which English keys correspond to which Greek letters.
Microsoft Visual keyboard supports typing in more than one language on the same computer by showing you a keyboard for another language on your screen. You might use Visual Keyboard when you change your keyboard layout from one language to another. When you change keyboard layouts, the characters you see as you type might not correspond with your keyboard. Visual Keyboard lets you see the keyboard for the language you've switched to on your screen so that you can either click the keys on your screen or see the correct keys to press to enter text.
Displaying Greek text on a browser
In order for the Greek to be correctly displayed in a browser you must ensure that the <HEAD> section of the source code contains the following tag:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type'>
or
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type'>
if you want to use Unicode encoding.
GREEK FONTS LINKS
How to view print and type in Greek for all platforms from Hellenic Resources Network
http://www.hri.org/fonts
Greek fonts
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_Greek3.html
Adding Greek fonts
http://langintro.com/greek/common/howto.htm
Dealing with Greek Characters in Computers
http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~sivann/xgrk/greek-zvr.html
LINGUIST List 11.2285, Word Processing in Greek
POLYTONIC GREEK FONTS
Free Greek fonts by Magenta (Canonica is polytonic)
Unicode Polytonic Greek for the World Wide Web
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Πως θα εγκατασταθεί το πολυτονικό πληκτρολόγιο σε Windows 2000(750050) - Στα Windows 2000 υπάρχει η δυνατότητα εγκατάστασης πολυτονικού πληκτρολογίου.
Πώς θα εγκατασταθεί το πολυτονικό πληκτρολόγιο στα Windows XP
(750106) - Το άρθρο αυτό περιγράφει τη διαδικασία εγκατάστασης του πολυτονικού πληκτρολογίου στα Windows XP Home Edition ή στα Windows XP Professional Edition.
How to Use the Greek Polytonic System in Windows XP
Polytonic Greek is not a language itself but rather a representation form of the Greek Language. It is named Polytonic due to the use of multiple (poly-) diacritic marks, as opposed to Monotonic that uses a single (mono-) diacritic mark... download 1MB Word file
Χρήση πολυτονικών στα Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
(750052) - Οι εκδόσεις των Microsoft Windows (εκδόσεις 2000/XP) υποστηρίζουν πολυτονική Ελληνική γραφή (ψιλή, δασεία, περισπωμένη, υπογεγραμμένη, βαρεία, οξεία, κλπ.) και ακολουθεί το επίσημο Unicode(i) πρότυπο για τους ελληνικούς πολυτονικούς χαρακτήρες ...
Greek polytonic keyboard layout by Microsoft and by ellopos (You need Internet Explorer to see it).
Λήψη γραμματοσειρών (πολυτονικών και μονοτονικών) καθώς και οδηγών πληκτρολογίου για πολυτονικά
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