Fonts for Perseus WWW

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>>>>> "Williams" == turquoyz  <turquoyz@databank.com> writes:

    Williams> For those of you that are Greek scholars!  Warm regards,

    Williams> Bro. Williams
    Williams> ==========================================================


    >> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:42:05 -0500 X-Sender:
    >> jbaima@onramp.net To: ioudaios-l@lehigh.edu From: John Baima
    >> <jbaima@onramp.net> Subject: Fonts for Perseus WWW Cc:
    >> b-greek@virginia.edu X-Status: X-UIDL: 811737035.035
    >> 
    >> I have not seen this cross posted here, and some of you may be
    >> interested
    Williams> in it:
    >>
    >>> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:47:46 -0400 From: Greg Crane
    >>> <gcrane@perseus.tufts.edu>
    >>> 
    >>> Anyone with Windows Netscape interested in seeing Greek texts,
    >>> LSJ and other sundry tools available on the Perseus Web Page
    >>> can now do so. We have a workaround that is not perfect, but
    >>> does get things going.
    >>> 
    >>> Thanks to John Baima, we have a workaround so that people with
    >>> Windows machines can see Greek via Netscape. He has prepared a
    >>> special font that you can download and then use to see
    >>> Greek. There are still some oddities: you need to set the
    >>> Fixed Width Font to his Greek, but the font really isn't fixed
    >>> width. The spacing looks odd when you see it, but it *is*
    >>> Greek and its a good start.
    >>> 
    >>> You can find the Fixed Width Greek font on John Baima's Silver
    >>> Mountain Software Homepage:
    >>> http://rampages.onramp.net/~jbaima/
    >>> 
    >>> Once you have installed this and made it the fixed width font
    >>> for Netscape, you can go to the Perseus home page:
    >>> http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
    >>> 
    >>> Once you get to a Greek text, all you need to do is set the
    >>> transliteration to Greek: our software checks to see if you
    >>> have a Mac or a Windows version of Netscape and chooses either
    >>> the appropriate transliteration scheme for SMK GreekKeys or
    >>> John's SGreek.
    >>> 
    >>> You can start with either the sampe LSJ Entry for fero or the
    >>> the sample Agamemnon.
    >>> 
    >>> We are very interested in seeing how to make this new medium
    >>> as useful as possible for classicists. *Please feel free to
    >>> play with the site and to pass this announcement on to anyone
    >>> else who might be interested.*
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> Greg Crane Editor in Chief Perseus Project
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>
                   
                           
                                  

I am interested in making both the Greek and Hebrew texts of the Bible
available via netscape and browsable and searchable via WAIS.  I have
Greek and Hebrew texts from "The Online Bible", but I did not know how
to make them viewable other than as *.gif graphics files.  It seems
that the above mentioned technique is a step in the right direction,
but what if one is not running either DOS or a MAC?  I run Linux at
home and Sun OS at work.  Does one need a custon font file for each
possible display system? Yech!

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