BUG: 4.5b Beta 5: Times New Roman font for Greek letters not rendered correctly

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Rosie Perera | Forum Activity | Posted: Fri, Apr 6 2012 12:30 AM | Locked

I can demonstrate this best in a PB, but I have seen these wrong Greek fonts in the middle of Logos edition books as well, just can't remember where at the moment.

Here's a document I created to demonstrate the use of all the fonts in my system capable of rendering Greek letters. In each case, the Greek word in the middle of this line of text is formatted in Word with Language = Greek and with the font named to the right (the rest of the line -- English -- is all in Times New Roman)

Now here is how that document compiles into a Logos PB:

Notice that in the first line, where the Greek word was in Times New Roman in Word, it appears to be rendered in a larger point size of Arial Unicode MS in Logos.

This is a pain, because I want the Greek lettering to look like it matches the surrounding text, which the Greek letters in the Times New Roman font too. And I don't want to have to go and find every occurrence of a Greek word in my PB (long document) and set it to some other font that will look better in Logos. Arial Unicode MS looks big and chunky compared to the same sized Times New Roman letters for English words.

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Rosie Perera | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 12:37 AM | Locked

Bump!

This looks really ugly in the middle of other text. I'm trying to build a PB that has Greek text interspersed in with the English, and this is what it comes out looking like, even though it's all Times New Roman in the original .docx file:

Look how much nicer the Greek text looks in the source document:

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Bradley Grainger (Logos) | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 7:08 AM | Locked

Rosie Perera:

Can you post this Greek font test source document?

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Todd Phillips | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 7:40 AM | Locked

Rosie Perera:

Notice that in the first line, where the Greek word was in Times New Roman in Word, it appears to be rendered in a larger point size of Arial Unicode MS in Logos.

It also looks like Gentium becomes SBL Greek when compiled.  They are different in the source but look the same in the PB.

 

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Rosie Perera | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 2:47 PM | Locked

Bradley Grainger (Logos):

Rosie Perera:

Can you post this Greek font test source document?

I hadn't saved it, but here I've recreated it for you: 3323.Foo_test.docx

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Bill Anderson | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 7:52 PM | Locked

I have run into this. I usually create Greek text in Gentium, but I experience what Rosie does when I forget to convert a Greek word from Times New Roman to Gentium.

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Ebbe Andréasson | Forum Activity | Replied: Mon, Apr 16 2012 11:29 PM | Locked

I get this in clippings as well. The clipping is from Jn 21.1 in WBC:

My fonts settings:

 

 

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