Comments for Andreas U Schmidhauser

Comment on Greek Ligatures by Stathis Papavasiliou

Stathis Papavasiliou — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:33:15 +0000

I tried to use the font in the manner suggested. It was time consuming.
I must agree with the comments of Rancher regarding the utility of the font.

I am a native Hellenic (not Greek please. This was the name given to Hellas after the Roman conquest in a masterstroke of psychological warfare to underline the fact that the decadent and weak inhabitants of Hellas of their time had nothing to do with the Hellenes of the past, but must have been the descendants of a backward tribe inhabiting the valley of Achelloos river the Graeci (see Suidas lemma Graikoi). The same thing was done to the Jews when Judea was renamed Palestine after the Philistines, the archrivals of the Jewish nation and Jerusalem Aelia Capitolina) speaker and writer and I would very much like to use the font in an easier way very much like the Old Vusillus font or other Hellenic fonts available.

The work on this font must go on and the end result must be a font that can be used in a cursory way with utilities included such as a document template and a small program that will enable the user to construct his/her own correspondence table.

The font is much too beautiful to be set aside because of ease of use problems.

Comment on Greek Ligatures by Papavasiliou Stathis

Papavasiliou Stathis — Sun, 09 May 2010 12:53:10 +0000

I can’t even begin to thank you for your contribution.

Erroso filtate,

Efstathios egrafen

Comment on Greek Ligatures by Rancher

Rancher — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:25:28 +0000

While your font is certainly ambitious, it is ultimately disappointing. Because you mapped Greek glyphs to Latin slots, it is not possible to use with already-existing Greek texts (TLG, Perseus, etc.).

The old Beta-code you refer to is dead now. Unicode and Open Type are now widely used. I really cannot fathom why you did this, but to each their own I guess. But if your goal is for the font to gain “a modest distribution and not be a mere curiosity,” as you claim, you’ll need to modernize it and use proper Unicode and OTF tables.

However, your PDF is very useful for deciphering ligatures. Thanks!

Comment on Keyboards by robert.austerlitz

robert.austerlitz — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:57:00 +0000

Hello,

I’d like make an iota subscript for η. Your website states that the combination [ctrl-alt-.] will work but windows intercepts this and turns it into an ellipsis. Your .pdf layout states [ctrl-alt-,] but this is mapped to a period.

Regards.

Comment on Apollonius in Unicode by Rueff

Rueff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:57:06 +0000

Dear Andreas Schmidhauser,
I’m a french teacher at the University Of Jussieu (Paris 7) and I’m working on grammatical questions for a book.
I would be very grateful to can have a look on the greek text of Apollionus.
Thank you very much and congratulations for this beautiful site,

Martin Rueff
(You can have a few informations on my cv on Wikipedia)

Comment on Greek Ligatures by J.M. Pauw

J.M. Pauw — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:10:33 +0000

Hello,

Thanks a lot for making and distributing this font. It helped me a lot in deciphering several ligatures I found in a 17th century Greek book.

Kind regards,

Michel Pauw

Teacher of Classics at the Van Lodenstein College, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Comment on Greek Ligatures by Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:55:32 +0000

I don’t know whether it has something to do with what Justin mentioned in his comment but I am unable to install the font under Mac OSX 10.4.11. Well, I can install it but the Font Collection Utility warns me that there is a serious problem with the font (“Tabelle für die Schriftnamen” - in English probably something like “Table for Font Names”). As a result the font won’t appear in any application’s font menu nor can I access it with the Character Map Utility (I am able to open the font with Type Tool, though). I’d love to use RGeekL2 – it looks like a lot of work went into that typeface.

Comment on Greek Ligatures by Justin Kerk

Justin Kerk — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:02:06 +0000

Erm, you’re really not supposed to map your own unrelated glyphs to Unicode ranges like Latin Extended-A - that’s what the Private Use Area is for. This will cause problems, for example, if someone has this font installed and uses a program like Firefox that automatically looks through the fonts on the system to display special characters - your font map is basically lying and saying it supports all these Latin characters when it will actually come out as Greek.

Ideally you’d want to do a font like this using automatic OpenType ligatures, but I can understand if you don’t have the software or ambition to implement that.

Comment on MF by AUS

AUS — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:43:58 +0000

The Bibliography has now appeared in print:
Ἐργογραφία Michael Frede, Deucalion 25 (2007), pp. 193–200

Comment on Keyboards by AUS

AUS — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:36:35 +0000

Thank you for the comment. I’ve just rewritten the procedure and also added a screen shot to make things clearer. In any case, you need to select the new keyboard only once, and it’ll work in all Windows programs. I normally use a shortcut such as Ctrl-Shift-1 to switch keyboards (as shown by window nº 3 on the screen shot). But in the menu with the title “Text Services and Input Language” (window nº 2), there’s an option called “Language Bar”, which you might want to select—it’ll put a keyboard selector next to the clock in the Taskbar.

Comment on Keyboards by Hermann Schibli

Hermann Schibli — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:36:03 +0000

Dear Mr Schmidhauser,

I have followed your instructions for installing Graece 1.5, and I’m pretty sure the installation was successful (I got the kbd-gr15 moved to my C drive). But I do not know how, when I open my Word Microsoft (Office), I can access the Greek script. Do I have to install a font?

I’m not very versed in the arcana of computer systems, obviously. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

Comment on Record by Pierre

Pierre — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:52:09 +0000

Realplayer doesn’t seem to work, at least not in my version…