Greek Fonts in WORD 2010?
I recently upgraded to Office 2010. I've discovered I have no Greek or Hebrew fonts in WORD 2010.
Can anyone recommend a course of action? What have YOU done if you're using WORD 2010?
Thanks in advance for any direction you can give.
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I recently upgraded to Office 2010. I've discovered I have no Greek or Hebrew fonts in WORD 2010.
Can anyone recommend a course of action? What have YOU done if you're using WORD 2010?
Thanks in advance for any direction you can give.
Well, I dowloaded Greek Fonts where I found them on the Internet on sites that teach NT Greek (such as teknia.com, little greek) - google may help. I think that Word 2010 seems to auto-install some fonts when it detects them in a document that is opened, but I may be in error here. At least, most of the time you will want to have the fonts that the producers of the documents used in order to enjoy the reading experience without reformatting.
Since I use SBL Greek in Logos as Greek standard font, I downloaded and installed this from http://www.sbl-site.org/educational/BiblicalFonts_SBLGreek.aspx
Hope this helps,
Mich
Have joy in the Lord!
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I recently upgraded to Office 2010. I've discovered I have no Greek or Hebrew fonts in WORD 2010.
Can anyone recommend a course of action? What have YOU done if you're using WORD 2010?
Thanks in advance for any direction you can give.
You have two other options from Logos which allows you to use unicode fonts (now the industry standard).
1. Install one of the ancient languages keyboards from Logos. These will let you type in Greek using the extended characters in unicode fonts. There's even a video on the page about how to install them on your system. That page is here: http://www.logos.com/support/downloads/keyboards
2. If you're not very good at typing in Greek (or Hebrew), and you only need a Greek word or two once in a while, you could also use Shibboleth. It's a pretty cool tool, pretty easy to use, and it copies/pastes well into MS Word. That page is here: http://www.logos.com/shibboleth
Either one of those options are the recommended ones, especially if you ever want to import anything into Logos as a PBB, since Logos often changes the font on import, since unicode is now the industry standard for this type of thing.
Help links: WIKI; Logos 6 FAQ. (Phil. 2:14, NIV)
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You can go to Mounce's website and download free greek and hebrew fonts. You should already know his website.
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I recently upgraded to Office 2010. I've discovered I have no Greek or Hebrew fonts in WORD 2010.
Can anyone recommend a course of action? What have YOU done if you're using WORD 2010?
Thanks in advance for any direction you can give.
You should have gotten a number of Greek and Hebrew fonts installed with your L4 (or L3) installation. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\\Windows\Fonts and see if you have such fonts as SBL Hebrew, Ezra SIL, Gentium, KadmosU, New Athena Unicode as well as some others such as the Estrangelo and Serto fonts for Syriac.
george
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Word 2010 has insert symbol tool that includes Greek Extended unicode characters:
Word 2010 default body font: Calibri has unicode Greek characters.
Keep Smiling [:)]
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This is
great information. I have a couple of the fonts listed: SBL Greek; SBL
Hebrew; KadmosU . . . BUT NO on Ezra, SIL, GentiumBut I have
not clearly stated the problem . . .I have
some Greek and Hebrew fonts, but they end up as English in the doc.So if I
type "luw" I don't get the Greek letter I get "luw"In
addition, all the articles or posts that include greek or hebrew words,
including my book manuscript, are now English instead of the original greek or
hebrew which appeared prior to my update to Windows 7 and Office 2010.I hope
this clarifies.As far as
Unicode being available, I don't know anything about how I would use Unicode or
Symbols. Never had the need.0 -
But I have
not clearly stated the problem . . . I have
some Greek and Hebrew fonts, but they end up as English in the doc. So if I
type "luw" I don't get the Greek letter I get "luw"This is typical for Unicode fonts such as those Logos uses. Only older (outdated?) fonts change an a to alpha. Several people pointed you to tools which are able to generate Greek or Hebrew text, especially the Logos tool http://www.logos.com/shibboleth.
Alternatively, switch your keyboard layout from english (shows EN in the statusbar) to Greek (shows EL) and type it. ανδ τηεν ζου ωιλλ σεε Γρεεκ χηγαραχτερσ ον ζουρ σχρεεν.
Have joy in the Lord!
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I have some Greek and Hebrew fonts, but they end up as English in the doc.
So if I type "luw" I don't get the Greek letter I get "luw"
In addition, all the articles or posts that include greek or hebrew words, including my book manuscript, are now English instead of the original greek or hebrew which appeared prior to my update to Windows 7 and Office 2010.
I hope this clarifies.
What you apparently need is a Greek (Hebrew) keyboard. These can be downloaded and installed from the Logos site. Simply type "keyboards" in the search bar on the site. I have my computer set up so that <lft-alt, shift,1> is English, <lft-alt, shift, 2> is Greek, <lft-alt, shift, 3> is Hebrew, and <lft-alt, shift, 4> is Syriac. Using Word 2010 or any other program with an English interface will always result in Latinate characters unless you change keyboards. In L3 they had the icon in the taskbar you could use for changing languages, but that is not in L4.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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I have
some Greek and Hebrew fonts, but they end up as English in the doc.So if I
type "luw" I don't get the Greek letter I get "luw"In
addition, all the articles or posts that include greek or hebrew words,
including my book manuscript, are now English instead of the original greek or
hebrew which appeared prior to my update to Windows 7 and Office 2010.Logos has an article about Unicode, Fonts, & Keyboards => http://www.logos.com/support/lbs/fonts
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library has a "Guide to Unicode Greek" => http://www.doaks.org/research/byzantine/doaks_unicode_greek_guide.html
Learned Office 2010 has one font (Symbol) that has Greek letters for luw:
All Logos 4 Greek Fonts use Unicode Greek characters (added some Greek Unicode with accents for font comparison)
Keep Smiling [:)]
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Though I appreciate everyone's input. The language keyboards were the answer I needed. So thanks for the link to the video. I followed the video and now have both my Greek and Hebrew available to me by simply using the "alt+shift+#". I assigned 1 for English, 2 for Greek and 3 for Hebrew. Now I can quickly switch between them. This is actually a better configuration than I had when using Word 2007 with XP.
So thanks Richard . . . and all others who shared your knowledge and time regarding this challenge.
Time is a love-gift. And I appreciate it! Blessings!
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Mathematica1 is the font you want, and you should already have it installed.
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Peace, Mark! Welcome to the Logos Forums.... I notice this is your first post!Mathematica1 is the font you want, and you should already have it installed.
I just checked my fonts; and I do NOT have Mathematica1............ Can you describe it further? Do I "want" Mathematica1 -- or were you posting in reply to any particular post. Looking forward to hearing from you! *smile*
Philippians 4: 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand..........
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Mathematica1 is the font you want, and you should already have it installed.
Don't think so.
Mathematica1 is a symbol set developed by Andre Kuzniarek for use in Wolfram's Mathematica. It has nothing to do with Hebrew and the only Greek symbols in it are for mathematical operations.
Logos 7 Collectors Edition
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Mathematica1 is the font you want, and you should already have it installed.
Don't think so.
Mathematica1 is a symbol set developed by Andre Kuzniarek for use in Wolfram's Mathematica. It has nothing to do with Hebrew and the only Greek symbols in it are for mathematical operations.
Note the poster and consider any other posts by him as suspect unless he begins to post relevant material. This has all the earmarks of a troll so don't feed him (again, unless he begins to post relevant material).
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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You can go to Mounce's website and download free greek and hebrew fonts. You should already know his website.
I'd highly recommend avoiding the fonts Mounce provides. Instead of using unicode, which is now the standard, the Teknia fonts simply render Greek glyphs in place of English characters. So if you type an "e," as far as the computer is concerned it's still an "e," even though the "e" in TekniaGreek looks like an "ε". If you were to change it to another font or copy and paste it into another program, it would look something like very poorly transliterated Greek. "Legvmhn" instead of "λεγωμην", for example.
Gentium, SBLGreek, and Palatino Linotype are some examples of nice fonts that support Polytonic greek typing. Just change the language in your keyboard settings to access the Greek glyphs.
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You can go to Mounce's website and download free greek and hebrew fonts. You should already know his website.
I'd highly recommend avoiding the fonts Mounce provides. Instead of using unicode, which is now the standard, the Teknia fonts simply render Greek glyphs in place of English characters. So if you type an "e," as far as the computer is concerned it's still an "e," even though the "e" in TekniaGreek looks like an "ε". If you were to change it to another font or copy and paste it into another program, it would look something like very poorly transliterated Greek. "Legvmhn" instead of "λεγωμην", for example.
Gentium, SBLGreek, and Palatino Linotype are some examples of nice fonts that support Polytonic greek typing. Just change the language in your keyboard settings to access the Greek glyphs.
Good advice. Another set of fonts to avoid is the BibleWorks fonts.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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