Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 25.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: "Patrick T. Rourke" <ptrourke@valueweb.net> (35)
Subject: Greek->PageMaker?
[2] From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing- (12)
services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re TEI software?
[3] From: "John Unsworth" <jmu2m@virginia.edu> (13)
Subject: RE: 15.023 Greek->PageMaker? centre & margin? TEI
software?
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:19:59 +0100
From: "Patrick T. Rourke" <ptrourke@valueweb.net>
Subject: Greek->PageMaker?
I've often had problems with the WordPerfect Greek fonts in Adobe products;
the embedding permissions are not set in WordPerfect's fonts, and I know
that many Adobe products (for example, Acrobat 4) will not allow one to
embed fonts that do not have the the embedding permissions set. You might
want to try one of the various GreekKeys-compatible fonts. (The WP Greek
fonts simply assign different glyphs to the Latin-1 character codes).
But since you say that you're simply looking for an *unaccented* alpha, I
should think that the letter "a" in Symbol font would do, unless PageMaker
has problems with Symbol font as well. Though the Symbol font char set is
really intended for use in mathematics, it does contain the unaccented forms
of all the letters in the 24-character classical Greek alphabet, in both
cases. Assuming that you're using Windows, of course.
Patrick Rourke
ptrourke@mediaone.net
>
> I hope you'll forgive me a technical question here!
>
> I'm having great difficulty in inserting an unaccented alpha into one
> word in Greek in an English text in PageMaker 6.5. I can't paste the
> original (In WordPerfect 6.0) in, even after adjusting for the Panose
> substitution, and the three Greek fonts available to me in Pagemaker (GK.
> Century, Courier, and Helvetica) all seem to call for the keyboard
> character used for double quotes. However, on my Dell "Quiet Key" I
> continue to get quote marks with that key, no matter what I try to do. I'd
> be glad to try any suggestions!
>
> Thanks,
> Hilary Attfield
> -------------------------
> Hilary Attfield hattfiel@wvu.edu
> Technical Editor, Victorian Poetry
> Interim Co-ordinator of the Center for Literary Computing
> Dept. of English, PO Box 6296
> West Virginia University
> Morgantown, Wv 26506-6296
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:22:05 +0100
From: Lou Burnard <lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re TEI software?
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
|I am still looking for (relatively) easy-to-use and (relatively)
|inexpensive software for the creation of machine-readable TEI-conformant
|texts, software that could be used by scholars for projects that do not
|have any kind of grant funding and who do not work at institutions that
|can provide consulting support.
Check out http://www.tei-c.org/Software for some suggestions to get
you started. I particularly recommend tei-emacs -- does everything,
runs on everything, lots of free tutorials out there, and costs
precisely zero.
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Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 07:22:33 +0100
From: "John Unsworth" <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
Subject: RE: 15.023 Greek->PageMaker? centre & margin? TEI software?
Charles Faulhaber writes:
>I am still looking for (relatively) easy-to-use and (relatively)
>inexpensive software for the creation of machine-readable TEI-conformant
>texts, software that could be used by scholars for projects that do not
>have any kind of grant funding and who do not work at institutions that
>can provide consulting support.
There is a listing of generic and TEI-specific software at:
http://www.tei-c.org/Software/index.html
the new TEI customization of emacs, available for download there, is worth a
look, but if you want something that's more menu-driven and more fool-proof,
you probably need to consider commercial software: the cheapest of these is
still probably Xmetal (http://www.softquad.com/top_frame.sq), available free
for evaluation, $295 for a single license, educational price.
John Unsworth
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