4.1092 Rs: OE fonts; Ancient Greek Medicine (5/57)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 26 Feb 91 22:42:43 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1092. Tuesday, 26 Feb 1991.


(1) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 00:43 EST (13 lines)
From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET
Subject: Re: 4.1084 ... Old English Font

(2) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 09:32:24 EST (11 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: query response: Mac font

(3) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 18:42 GMT (10 lines)
From: Don Fowler <DPF@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 4.1084 ... Ancient Greek Medicine

(4) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 16:38:58 EST (12 lines)
From: Peter Ian Kuniholm <MCG@CORNELLC>
Subject: ancient medicine

(5) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1991 15:22:44 -0800 (PST) (11 lines)
From: Art Ferrill <ferrill@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: 4.1084 ... Ancient Greek Medicine

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 00:43 EST
From: FZINN@OBERLIN.BITNET
Subject: Re: 4.1084 Queries (4/55)

In response to Elli Mylonas' query about a Mac font that has Old English
characters, there is one available on the Ansax-L listserv. It is the
NY_OE font produced by Brian Whitaker, Atkinson College, York University.
The font is excellent and is freeware. You can obtain it from the
listserv at WVNVM as NY_OE SOFTMAC. I could also send your friend a
disk with the fonts on it (if he/she would send a blank diskette).

Grover Zinn
FZINN@OBERLIN

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 09:32:24 EST
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: query response: Mac font

Regarding the request for an Old English font on the Mac, if it is just a
matter of using a simple bit-font (not Postscript), you can make your
own very easily using ResEdit. I did this once for Icelandic in about
15 minutes. It gets a little trickier if you want to make sure that all
sizes are scaled correctly with respect to each other or if you want a
Postscript font. For that you would need one of the commercial font
editors.

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 18:42 GMT
From: Don Fowler <DPF@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: 4.1084 Queries (4/55)

On ancient Greek medicine: there are lots of possible sources, but a
good local first contact would be Heinrich von Staden at Yale (Classics
Dept., I don't know if he has an email address) who knows as much as
anyone in the world about the subject.

Don Fowler.

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 16:38:58 EST
From: Peter Ian Kuniholm <MCG@CORNELLC>
Subject: Re: 4.1084 Queries (4/55)

Re. Elli Mylonas's request about people working on ancient medicine:

Try Dr. John Scarborough at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisc.
He does both ancient medicine and classics. Office telephone is
(608)262-8195.

Hope that this helps. Peter Kuniholm

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 1991 15:22:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Art Ferrill <ferrill@u.washington.edu>
Subject: ancient medicine

[...]

John Scarborough, author of Roman Medicine (1969), is at U. Wisconsin, I
believe. He should be a good source of info.

Art Ferrill