Greek Fonts in Word for Macs

[Petrobey_Mavromihalis]

I need to write the odd word in the Greek alphabet in a mainly English piece of writing. I’m currently using Times as my font on Word for Macs which does have the Greek alphabet as an option in the Insert Symbol menu. However you can’t seem to do a Greek letter with an accent, which is important for indicating the stress.

If this makes sense (!), does anyone know the best way round this? The documents will have to be compatible with Word for Windows.

Thanks in advance.

[beowulff]

Have you looked in the “Character Palette” under the International pane of System Preferences?

[capybara]

Ok, go into system preferences and International Preferences: Input Menu, and click 'input method unicode character palette as ‘on’. A little strange flag should show up in your menu bar *I think. . .)-- when I open that up and choose “Greek” a crapload of lower case characters and things with accents show up in ‘related’, then you can drag and drop. (Wish I could be more specific but I set mine up with a hotkey some time ago and can’t remember exactly how to get the character palette to show up).

[Petrobey_Mavromihalis]

Ok, I can get the Character Palette to appear whilst I’m in a Word document, and it has all the Greek characters I need, but when i try to drag and drop them in I get gobbledegook. The Palette has a message at the bottom saying “this application does not support this unicode-only character”.

And as an update, the Character Palette works fine here, just not in Word. See - καλὁ!

And, just to repeat, the script has to work when I send the document to another computer - PC or whatever.

Thanks for the help.

[capybara]

@Petrobey Mavromihalis

The Palette has a message at the bottom saying “this application does not support this unicode-only character”.

And as an update, the Character Palette works fine here, just not in Word. See - καλὁ!

And, just to repeat, the script has to work when I send the document to another computer - PC or whatever.

Thanks for the help.

Really? What version of Word/ OS X are you using? It’s working fine on mine in 10.4 and “Word 2004 for Mac version 11.3”.

[Petrobey_Mavromihalis]

Hmmm. It’s Word X Service Release 1.

[Anaglyph]

@Petrobey Mavromihalis

And, just to repeat, the script has to work when I send the document to another computer - PC or whatever.

If you send the document to an other computer as a word document (if it has to be edited by the recipient), the greek letters will be replaced unless that other computer has the fonts you used (which frequently is a problem when moving documents containing any but the most standard fonts from Mac to PC or from PC to Mac.

In a PDF file, you can embed the fonts to ensure that they are displayed correctly on the recipient’s computer, and are printed correctly.

[Petrobey_Mavromihalis]

@Anaglyph

If you send the document to an other computer as a word document (if it has to be edited by the recipient), the greek letters will be replaced unless that other computer has the fonts you used

That’s what I’d guessed. It does have to be edited by the publisher. Is there a font that both of us could download for Mac or PC? I’ve tried looking for something like this but with no luck . . .

[Anaglyph]

@Petrobey Mavromihalis

That’s what I’d guessed. It does have to be edited by the publisher. Is there a font that both of us could download for Mac or PC? I’ve tried looking for something like this but with no luck . . .

Googling for greek+font+windows+mac, I found, for example Ismini Greek (scroll down on page).

This site contains a lot of information about working with greek fonts.

[Petrobey_Mavromihalis]

@Anaglyph

Googling for greek+font+windows+mac, I found, for example Ismini Greek (scroll down on page).

:smack: I should have been able to figure that myself. Nevermind.

The Ismini font seems to work for me. Presumably someone with a PC just needs to download the windows version and they’ll see what I see? I shall experiment.

Thanks again for helping a rubbish googler.