[Biblical-languages] Unicode for NT students (paper)

Peter Kirk peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
Wed Jul 2 07:22:56 EDT 2003


On 02/07/2003 05:56, biblang at ntresources.com wrote:

> Peter,
>
> Thanks for your comments and corrections/clarifications. They are much 
> appreciated. I'll revise accordingly. As to Tahoma, I've no idea where 
> this one came from. It's what's on my XP box--has an Open Type icon. 
> Here's some of the info from Windows font viewer:
>
> V. 3.05
> Creation date, 11/26/96
> Modification date, 1/15/2002
> 379,588 bytes
> Font encoding type: Unicode (ISO 10646-2)
> Contains a number of OpenType layout tables for Arabic
> S.v. "description": The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters were 
> designed by world renowned type designer Matthew Carter, and 
> hand-instructed by leading hinting expert, Monotype's Tom Rickner. The 
> Arabic, Hebrew and Thai characters were designed by the Monotype 
> Drawing Office to complement Carter's initial designs.
>
> Rod
>
> ====================================================
> Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Associate Prof/NT
> Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA,USA
> NTResources.com  PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
> Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
> ====================================================
>  
>
Thanks, Rodney. For more details of the version of Tahoma which you 
have, see 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.asp?FID=19&FNAME=Tahoma, 
though this doesn't say what the coverage is. At one time it was 
possible to download updated versions of Microsoft fonts from a 
Microsoft site, but I don't think this is possible any more. I guess 
this version came with some software you installed or perhaps with a 
Windows XP service pack. Well, perhaps you should warn your students 
that they will not all have a compatible version of Tahoma.

-- 
Peter Kirk
peter.r.kirk at ntlworld.com
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/




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