> 2. Keyboards. Are there any Unicode keyboards/
> input methods for polytonic Greek?
I don't know about Mac. But for Windows, Ralph Hancock's Antioch provides a
Word 2000 keyboard for Windows, and Keyman and Multikey can provide Windows
keyboards with Extended Greek capabilities (I think I have one for Multikey,
and another listmember has been working on one for Keyman); also, I've used
the SC UniPad editor (with a quick and dirty keyboard map I started and
which is being further developed by James Naughton, intended to be
semi-compatible with the betacode representation of polytonic Greek) with
some success. I'll troll around some more with questions about Mac.
Your other question I've answered offlist with a link to a draft document
I've been working on, which is not ready for prime time. There are several
easy to get TrueType fonts with such support, including Vusillus Old Face
Italic (Ralph Hancock), Cardo (David J. Perry), Athena Unicode (Jeffrey
Rusten), Code2000 (and I imagine Code2001 - I've been out of town for two
weeks and haven't seen James Kass's new font mentioned in previous threads),
Titus Cyberbit Basic (the Titus project only provides an exe-zipped version
however - if I understood a correspondent correctly, this is because
"Macintosh does not support Unicode." Well, there's a semantic issue there,
which the list was kind enough to clear up for me), and two Windows-only TTF
fonts (Windows only not technologically, but by license, or so I've assumed,
because they are bundled with Windows products) Palatino Linotype (comes
with Windows 2000) and Arial Unicode MS (comes with Office 2000). All but
the Windows fonts are either freeware or shareware; there's a paidware
version of the Vusillus font that includes roman style for about US$50 (part
of the already mentioned Antioch package), and the price of Code2000 is very
reasonable. The best *looking* fonts, though, are probably Minion Pro
(which is definitely paidware, at the low 3 figures in US$, I believe) and
the two Windows fonts (I happen to like the Palatino Linotype font, though I
don't quite understand why the combining diacriticals aren't working in
IE5 - rather than zero space characters, one gets an artifact character, and
a particularly obnoxious one, too).
All the shareware/freeware fonts I've mentioned I've tested myself under
their evaluation terms, both on Windows 9x (98, SE, and ME) and RedHat 7
(with XFree86 4.0 and Mozilla M17), and most also with RedHat 6.2. (I've
uninstalled the shareware fonts.) Minion Pro I have not tested at all; the
two Windows fonts have been tested according to their licenses.
I'd be interested to hear just how much luck you have with extended Greek in
Acrobat, though. I haven't experimented with it that I remember (I don't
like PDF except for print applications). Just remember to stick with one of
the normalization forms (I use NFC, but then I do mostly web documents).
Patrick Rourke
(I'm on digest, so I apologize if someone else has answered this already)
ptrourke@methymna.com
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