Fonts for Scholars

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These pages contain links to several files inPDF format. For information on getting the free Adobe Reader and otherPDF viewers, improving display quality, and solving common problems with PDFfiles, go to this page.7/02/20Updated version of the complete list of charactersfor classical Latin posted with a few additions from Unicode 13.8/09/17          Italica Vetus sinistroverse version 1.2released.  See the Old Italic page for more information and downloads.8/04/17          Italica Vetus 1.2 and updated keyboards released.  This version contains over twenty new shapesand some updated OpenType features, along with a few corrections andbugfixes.  .                          New: there is now aseparate page devoted to software that provides complete support forOpenType and other ‘smart font’ technologies, including a guide to using OTfeatures in LibreOffice 5.3 or more recent.7/10/17          Materials for Old Italic.  On the Old Italicpage you can download Italica Vetus,a font that supports the Old Italic range of Unicode (with many glyph variants)and keyboards to enter the Old Italic characters easily.  4/20/11          Cardo 1.04, a major update to Cardowith many new roman characters and the first Cardo bold, is now posted.  See the Cardo Fontpage for details and links to download.4/16/11           Be careful about unauthorizedversions of Cardo; see the Cardo font page forinformation.2/25/11          Cardo italic released!  See the Cardo Fontpage for details and links to download.11/16/10Site upgrade: I have upgraded my web site to avoid future problems with trafficquotas being exceeded. The site was offline for a day while this upgradewas processed; apologies to anyone who tried to access the site during thattime. I hope I have gotten everything uploaded correctly to the newserver, but if you find any glitches please let me know.9/19/10The book is out! I have been working intensely for over a year on a majorupdate of my book about Unicode, fonts, OpenType, and related issues — therehave been no updates to Cardo or to this page since the book has consumed allthe time not devoted to my day job. This new edition, called DocumentPreparation for Classical Languages, about 240 pages, is now ready! This page gives all the information, including thecomplete table of contents and preface and samples of some chapters, as well asthe various ordering options.9/10/10New version 1.6 of XeTeX tutorial posted. Ifyou need to use OpenType features in your documents and are frustrated by lackof support in applications, or are looking for a freely available alternativeto commercial publishing programs, check out XeTeX.XeTeX is an extension of the typesetting language TeX, familiar to many mathematicians and publishers butless widely used elsewhere. See this tutorialwhich focuses on using XeTeX to create multilingualdocuments with OpenType features. Also download thiszip file with the samples. The first half of the tutorial is aimed atthose new to TeX, while the second half will beuseful both for newcomers and for those experienced with TeXbut new to OpenType and XeTeX. Version 1.6incorporates a number of small but important updates and corrections. 5/19/10Cardo has now been released under the SIL Open Font License. Version .99contains the updated license and a couple of minor fixes (no new characters,but the line spacing may work better in some Mac applications). Themanual still has the old license info; just ignore that. Click thegraphic at left for information about the Open Font License. Oneimportant difference is that there is no longer any distinction betweencommercial and non-commercial use; anyone can use Cardo.   Cardo has been chosen, along with severalother high-quality free fonts, for inclusion in the initial release of the Google Font Directory. ThisDirectory is part of Google’s effort to make it easier for web page designersto get quality typography on their pages through the new Google Font API.For an explanation of all this see thisblog post on Google Code or thisweb page.3/14/09My proposals for ancient Roman characters in Unicode were accepted and thecharacters appear in Unicode 5.1. For reference, the proposals are nowarchived on this page. Click hereto go directly to the Cardo font page. Scroll down for more informationabout other things this site has to offer.Beginning in themid-1980s, as a classicist I encountered problems in finding fonts and keyboarddrivers that I need for Latin and Greek. This has turned into a seriousinterest in fonts and related issues, especially as they affect classicists,Biblical scholars, medievalists, and others who need to work in a variety oflanguages. I am particularly interested in helping people understand anduse the Unicode Standard, which makes true multilingual computing possible, andsmart font technology such as OpenType and AAT.On this page youwill find:·a book that provides detailedinformation about font issues of concern to scholars·information about some of myown Unicode fonts and keyboard drivers·help with displaying macronson web pages and with using characters in the Supplementary Planes of UnicodeEmail me with any questions or comments.Corrections or additional sources of information are welcomed.All the materialson this page are available free, for the benefit of scholars andteachers. I do have one request: if you find these materials useful,please drop me an email and tell me about how you have used them, and aboutimprovements you would like to see.Cardo:A Unicode font for classicists, biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguistsAvailable from this page is information about, and a link todownload, the Cardo font. Cardo is a large Unicode font specificallydesigned to meet the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, andlinguists.Unicodekeyboard input: Latin, Greek, and HebrewIf you want to useUnicode fonts and are looking for a convenient way to enter the characters,look on this page that describes mykeyboards. See also Document Preparation for detailed discussionof many different ways to enter uncommon characters into your documents.Displayingmacrons on web pagesSpecial for Latinteachers: how to get macrons on your web pages! Clickhere for details.Allabout fontsSeeabove for information about the second edition. This old edition is nowretired.  I have put most of what I have learned about fonts, keyboards,and related issues into a booklet titled Word Processing in Classical Languages:Latin, Germanic, Greek. This booklet provides information aboutstandard 256-character fonts as well as information about Unicode and how thiswill help scholars use a larger repertoire of characters, along with much otherinformation. It is written to be accessible to those who don’t haveextensive knowledge of font issues, but also contains material that will be ofinterest to those who are experienced in this area. FontDevelopment IssuesPDF file discussing issues relating to the design of the Greek letter San/sanis posted here. Comments are solicited onthis topic.I used to postsome useful links here. They are now, along with many others, included inthe second edition of Document Preparation. It was difficult todecide which links, out of the very large number that I found while researchingthe book, were worth a separate mention on this page, so I just took them alloff.

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