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[darcydodo]

The font TITUS Cyberbit Basic is excellent for writing Greek on a PC, so long as you are able to write in Unicode. It supports everything from qoppa to digamma to dots beneath letters. Also, unlike Vusillus, it has a fully functional Roman face. (My computer may have just been acting up last night, but on the offchance that it wasn't, download the ZIP, not the EXE file.)

It's TTF format, but apparently OS X on Macs may be able to handle that, insofar as they can deal with Unicode at all. There's information on Macs & Unicode here. Good ol' Mastro.

Comments

[emidala.livejournal.com]

woaaaah. excellent.

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[darcydodo]

I knew someone would appreciate it. ;)

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Qoppa! Wow!

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[darcydodo]

:P

Believe me, it's grounds for real excitement.

[greenelephant.livejournal.com]

But does it look better when it's not displayed on their page? The letters look quite messy to me. Gah - I'm all for functionality, but I want my Greek to look pretty :-)

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[darcydodo]

I can't remember where it's displayed on their page, but I think the answer is yes. It's not bad. And the digamma has a very pretty little curve at the bottom. Anyway, you could always download it and see. :)

Of course, for sheer beauty, I'd choose Vusillus any day (see icon). It just doesn't provide me with half the characters I'd need for editing papyrus or inscriptions.

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[darcydodo]

If you're looking at the chart with the unicode values, that's not the TITUS font that's being used... it's just whatever's installed on your system currently.

Aha!

[greenelephant.livejournal.com]

I get it now. Yes, I am that slow. :-)

What I really wish is that I could have a Win 9x font that looks just like Athenian, for which the keyboard made sense. I tend to use the Graeca family of fonts (which also, I think, have papyrological and epigraphical characters and diacriticals), since our department has a site license for them.

But perhaps I'll download TITUS for the Mac here and see what it looks like.

Re: Aha!

[darcydodo]

If you were using a PC, I'd tell you of a customizable utility with which to enter your unicode, so that you can make the keyboard respond however you want. I don't know what's possible with a mac. The keyboard that makes sense to me is the one for SGreek (not Super Greek, btw, in case you're not familiar with the font), so that's the keyboard that I based the layout on for my computer. And then I changed it, of course, so that I could include digamma and qoppa and having breathings *and* parentheses, etc. :)