[XeTeX] Being Doulos SIL's slave
Yves Codet
ycodet at club-internet.fr
Sat Sep 11 11:13:43 CEST 2004
Hello.
Le 11 sept. 04, à 00:53, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>
> If I'm guessing right and you're interested in (Unicode) Greek, you
> could try the Galatia SIL font from
> <http://scripts.sil.org/SILGrkUni>, or other Greek fonts that are out
> there. (Even Lucida Grande should have the Greek characters, I
> believe.)
>
Lucida Grande does include all of Unicode 4 for Greek, even archaic
letters and Bactrian sho, which I can prove: Κανηϸκο (Kanishka's name
in Bactrian). More seriously, it can display Greek fairly well, for
instance:
Ἦν Ἀπρίεω τοῦ προτέρου βασιλέος θυγάτηρ κάρτα μεγάλη τε καὶ εὐειδής,
μούνη τοῦ οἴκου λελειμμένη, οὔνομα δέ οἱ ἦν Νίτητις. Ταύτην δὴ τήν
παῖδα ὁ Ἄμασις κοσμήσας ἐσθῆτί τε καὶ χρυσῷ ἀποπέμπει ἐς Πέρσας ὡς
ἑωυτοῦ θυγατέρα. Μετὰ δὲ χρόνον ὥς μιν ἠσπάζετο 〈Καμβύσης〉 πατρόθεν
ὀνομάζων, λέγει πρὸς αὐτὸν ἡ παῖς· « Ὦ βασιλεῦ, διαβεβλημένος ὑπὸ
Ἁμάσιος οὐ μανθάνεις, ὃς ἐμὲ σοὶ κόσμῳ ἀσκήσας ἀπέπεμψε, ὡς ἑωυτοῦ
θυγατέρα διδούς, ἐοῦσαν τῇ ἀληθείῃ Ἀπρίεω, τὸν ἐκεῖνος ἐόντα ἑωυτοῦ
δεσπότην μετ’ Αἰγυπτίων ἐπαναστὰς ἐφόνευσε. »
It would be better with precomposed characters, but the problem is to
input them (with Yudit it's easy). Also there are a few errors in
Lucida Grande. I noticed these: "capital omicron with smooth breathing
and acute" and "capital omicron with smooth breathing and grave" are
inverted; same with rough breathing. I informed Apple a few months ago.
Apparently it has not been fixed yet.
Kind regards,
Yves
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