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From: saint@alessia.dei.unipd.it (Gian Uberto Lauri 228495)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Classical Greek font for word-processing?
Message-ID: <11206@alessia.dei.unipd.it>
Date: 20 May 91 07:26:19 GMT
References: <76534@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: D.E.I. Universita' di Padova (Italy)
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In article <76534@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v125lqbx@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>A friend of mine (a classics scholar) would like to be able to do
>(English) word-processing with inclusion of Greek letters.  He emphasized
>that a scientific Greek font would not suffice, as those don't allow for 
>the inclusion of accents.
>
>Does anyone do this now?  If so, what word-processing package do you
>use, and what font are you using?  Any info would be much appreciated.

At this time the only package I know that can typeset greek is TeX
with a classic greek font. With a little bit of hacking (writing fonts
for both the printer and amiga screen, a printer configuration file
and so on) Wordperfect could be used, but in a dirty way.

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