Copyright © Peter Gainsford
Last modified 21 May, 2005
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Greek font archive
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The following list is divided into different "font families". Greek text may be changed into a font from the same "family" and still be legible, but different font families are not compatible with one another.
TeX, LaTeX, and their variants are free and open-source typesetting packages.
BetaCode is the standard ASCII transliteration of Classical Greek used by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae to store Greek texts, and is used by some electronic journals. It also serves as the basis for some fonts. In these fonts, accents are done by use of combining diacritics which appear over the preceding character.
SuperGreek, used on the Macintosh platform in the 80s and early 90s, was the first widely available and influential Greek font for personal computers. For accents, SuperGreek fonts use combining diacritics which appear over the preceding character. A number of documents containing SuperGreek-format text are still floating around, and even some of the less tech-savvy academic journals still use this format, which has causes a great deal of inconvenience because of the fact that "smart quotes" (“ ”, ‘ ’) interfere with it.
WinGreek was the package intended to make Classical Greek almost as convenient for Microsoft Windows users as it already was for Mac users. For accents, this encoding relies on precomposed character-plus-accent combinations; hence one cannot type Greek in WinGreek fonts unless one uses additional WinGreek software in conjunction with a specific proprietary word processor.
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