Importing and formatting Greek in Word

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Hi,

The SP Ionic and other tools work really well on my system.

Sometimes I find Greek texts on the internet and import them to Word.

My question is: what possible fonts can I use?

There are tons of fancy one for the Latin alphabet but it seems to be rather limited for the Greek alphabet.

Times New Roman and Palatino Linotype look fine, but most other fonts look strange or don’t have the special characters with all the diacritical marks.

Any advice on importing Greek text from the internet and formatting it in Word is most welcome!

Thanks :smiley:

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Hi amans,

You get some idea at this site http://scholarsfonts.net

I myself use alphabetum (not free), but there are more (unicode) fonts that are free, e.g. Cardo, that you can use to display Greek characters.

This discussion offers info on keyboard layouts: http://discourse.textkit.com/t/how-to-use-the-greek-polytonic-system-in-windows-xp/3420/1

Regards,
Adelheid

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Hi Adelheid,

And thanks a bunch.

By following the last-mentioned thread I found a link to Microsoft’s guide on Polytonic Script.

In this guide, it is mentioned, that Word only offers the following fonts for Polytonic Greek:

Palatino Linotype
Tahoma
Arial Unicode MS

With the other fonts you can’t have all the diacritical marks.

— I suppose…

Thanks again :smiley:

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Hi amans,

Are you sure fonts like cardo and code2001 are no good with Word? The font I use on my Mac (alphabetum) is originally a Windows font. I would expect it to be of use with Word also.

Perhaps someone else can verify this?


Regards,
Adelheid

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Hi Adelheid,

No, I am not sure… in fact they work fine with Word. I found out how to download them and install them and they automatically work with Word.

The thing was: in Microsofts guide it stated that only 3 fonts would support Polytonic Greek…

But now I have beautiful documents with Code 2000 and Cardo :smiley:

Cheers

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Phew! :wink:

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That is: If you would believe Microsoft… :wink:

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My favorite Unicode font right now is Gentium. It only covers Latin and Greek.

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That site is great, too, William. I didn’t realise something like this even existed, I’ll be keping in touch with their developments.

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nice suggestions, people! thanks!

On my part I’ll recommend TekniaGreek which is basically the font of Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG), but a little processed to look better in Word.