I am trying to improve the appearance of Greek on my computer by installing new fonts and possibly moving to Diogenes plus TLG. But everything is going in reverse.
I have Diogenes installed. So I have been playing around with LSJ on there. So far so good. But I really like the GFS Porson font that they use in the second screenshot: http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/screen_shots.php So I thought I would install that and see how it looks on Diog/LSJ and possibly elsewhere (Perseus, etc)?? But when I go to the GFS page ( http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces19th.html ) to download the font, it looks like it should work, but the zip file doesn’t seem to have a proper font file and what they have seems Latin rather than Greek. How can the font file not have Greek characters in it??
Sorry I keep editing these things. And sorry I didn’t put this the font thread.
Are Greek fonts treated differently from Latin fonts? I have, I believe, Greek Keys and Unicode and Tavultsoft but now I want prettier fonts. Can I somehow get a big choice of fonts like the folks in Greece must surely have? Why is this whole font business so absurdly hard when there is a whole nation of people using Greek letters??? I am three hours in and sobbing over a wasted day.
Wow. I got GFSPorson-Regular to work on Diogenes. What I don’t understand is how when you click on the font file in the vista font folder you see all the letters, but they are Latin! How is that possible? Wouldn’t there need to be Greek letters in there also??
GFPorson is supposedly a Unicode font, so it should work with Perseus should it not?
There are about a zillion settings for Firefox if you go to Tools>Options>Content>Fonts and Colors>Advanced
How should they all be set? I have set the Language to Greek and Proportional to Sans Serif and the next three to GFS Porson and the Deconding to Greek 1253. Is that right? Still I am not getting the slightly italicized GFPorson. I had it for a moment on Google Greece, but then I changed something and it is gone.
Well, I tried restarting me computer and now the French Greek web site with the font that I liked so much now has undergone a transformation and it looks like my Perseus and Textkit fonts. All have smaller letters when accents are present and none have the slightly italicized look of the GFS Porson font!
OK, if I click the let websites chose a font box, then I get basically back to where I was yesterday. But why can’t I use GFS Porson for all my Greek?? It is so pretty!
I am going to start offering bits of my Greek library to whoever wants to figure this out for me! I got some Aristophanes here that I am not reading at the moment. Also, some good books on Plato!
