Installing Greek Fonts in Word (2013)

James Taylor

Is there a way to determine which Greek font a resource is using? For instance, sometimes when making a PB word properly displays the Greek and sometimes it uses English alphabet instead. When I look at the source document, It has Greek. How do I overcome this obstacle? Can you just install several different Greek fonts in order to have a surplus of options in hopes of "matching" the source font?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Grace and Peace

NB.Mick

James Taylor said:

Is there a way to determine which Greek font a resource is using?

It may be listed in the document. However, when you open it in Microsoft Word, it will show the name of the font, even if it is not installed on your system.  

James Taylor said:

For instance, sometimes when making a PB word properly displays the Greek and sometimes it uses English alphabet instead. When I look at the source document, It has Greek.

Well, that's "sort of" Greek. It might be Graeca or Teknia or any of those non-Unicode fonts from back when dirt was new. They substitute the English characters (so a looks like alpha, but is still at the same position as English a in the list of all characters, the codepage). Formatting the Greek-looking text in e.g. Times New Roman will tear the disguise and show the a. Unicode fonts will have the Greek alpha at a different position in the codepage than the English a and thus can display both languages in the same font (such as Times New Roman).

Note there are converters from non-Unicode to Unicode (one used to come with Libronix back in the day), you may need to use one, since Logos only uses Unicode fonts.

Mark Barnes

James Taylor said:

Is there a way to determine which Greek font a resource is using? For instance, sometimes when making a PB word properly displays the Greek and sometimes it uses English alphabet instead. When I look at the source document, It has Greek. How do I overcome this obstacle? Can you just install several different Greek fonts in order to have a surplus of options in hopes of "matching" the source font?

As Mick says, it probably means that the document is using legacy Greek character substitution, instead of modern unicode. You really should use Unicode, because otherwise you'll get in a mess, particularly when you try and use documents on another system.

I would strongly recommend you convert your document to unicode. There are all sorts of ways of doing that. Google convert Greek to unicode for several options. I think http://www.greektranscoder.org/ is one of the better ones as it works inside of Word.

James Taylor

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/767609#Comment_767609

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the feedback. I will try to convert it to unicode.