Preferred Coptic Fonts

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Posted by: JudyRedman
         
Hi People,

Does anyone know, or can anyone tell me who to ask, about current preferred Coptic fonts for publication.  I've been using either New Athena Unicode and/or MPH 2B Damase, which interchange quite happily (as they are supposed to), but am now writing a journal article with my advisor/supervisor who wants me to use SPAchmim, because that's the Coptic font on the SBL site.  I assume from previous comments in this group and from the fact that it doesn't work with my (actually the Logos) Coptic keyboard layout that it isn't a Unicode font.  Is this correct?

Is this still what SBL is recommending for Coptic?  It seems like it from the website.

Judy


         

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
SBL does not yet have a Unicode Coptic font available, but it is likely to be the next script tackled after the current set of fonts is complete.

You can find some Unicode Coptic fonts for download here:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Coptic.html

I have not examined these fonts, so can't speak to their quality, but at the least you will be able to enter, store and display Unicode encoded Coptic text, which can later be displayed in the SBL Coptic fonts.
         

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Posted by: JudyRedman
         

I have just installed some these fonts and they are unicode
versions of the fonts available on the Coptic Orthodox Church website, so
several of them are fine for the work I am doing except for one interesting
feature. 

 

New Athena Unicode and the other unicode Coptic fonts I've used
put the supra linear stroke on the character behind
where the cursor is so you type the character that you want to put the stroke on
and then type the stroke.  The fonts called FreeSerif[fontnname] from this
site follow the practice of the Coptic Orthodox Church fonts and put the
supralinear stroke on the character in front of the cursor, so you type it first
and then type the character underneath it, as it were. 

 

Thus, if you change from a font like New Athena to one of the
FreeSerif fonts, all your supralinear strokes are on the wrong characters. 
This is a pain, of course, especially since the Latin typeface for these fonts
is basically Times Roman and the FreeSerifCoptoMS font is a nicely proportioned
Coptic font.  FreeSerifKoptosMS has much larger Coptic characters than the
corresponding Latin characters, which makes the Coptic jump out of the page and
isn't as nice IMHO.

 

Regards

 

Judy

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From: John Hudson SBL does not yet have a Unicode                 Coptic font available, but it is likely to be the next script                 tackled after the current set of fonts is complete. You                 can find some Unicode Coptic fonts for download                 here: http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Coptic.html I                 have not examined these fonts, so can't speak to their quality,                 but at the least you will be able to enter, store and display                 Unicode encoded Coptic text, which can later be displayed in the                 SBL Coptic fonts.

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