SBL Coptic Font

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Posted by: JudyRedman
         
Dear Patrick,

Thanks for your reply.

I am actually quite happy using the Coptic Orthodox Church's coptic fonts - they have four or five different font faces available and the keyboard is mapped in a typist-friendly way.  If, however, the font offered by SBL is becoming the 'industry standard' for publishing serious works which include Coptic (which is what my supervisor is suggesting is likely/seems to be happening), then I'd like a Coptic font that will enable me to type Coptic into theses and articles quickly and easily.  

Since I am working on comparison of texts that appear both in the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic gospels, I anticipate needing to type significant passages of Coptic, rather than just a word here or there, so the way the keyboard is mapped is important.  And I'd really prefer not to have to go through and retype vast quantities of Coptic text  because of keyboard mapping issues (assuming anyone wants to publish my material).  I also recognise that the world doesn't revolve around my requirements. :-)

Given that Coptic isn't exactly the majority of scholars of Biblical languages number one 'must have' font, an easy option would be for SBL to contact the Coptic Orthodox Church and arranged to endorse one of their fonts as the 'official' one and either have it downloadable from the SBL site or point to the appropriate place on the Coptic Orthodox site.

Regards

Judy

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         

The
Coptic Orthodox Church's fonts will never become the long-term industry standard
because they are not Unicode fonts. Neither will the fonts presently available
on the SBL site. However, the Coptic Church's fonts could be remapped to the
Unicode standard for Coptic, and a Unicode keyboard layout could be created to
match the Coptic Church's key assignments.

 

http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~y2wama/fonts.html#Koptisch

 

Ken

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From: JudyRedman Dear Patrick, Thanks for your                 reply. I am actually quite happy using the Coptic                 Orthodox Church's coptic fonts - they have four or five                 different font faces available and the keyboard is mapped in a                 typist-friendly way. If, however, the font offered by SBL is                 becoming the 'industry standard' for publishing serious works                 which include Coptic (which is what my supervisor is suggesting                 is likely/seems to be happening), then I'd like a Coptic font                 that will enable me to type Coptic into theses and articles                 quickly and easily. Since I am working on comparison of                 texts that appear both in the Gospel of Thomas and the Synoptic                 gospels, I anticipate needing to type significant passages of                 Coptic, rather than just a word here or there, so the way the                 keyboard is mapped is important. And I'd really prefer not to                 have to go through and retype vast quantities of Coptic text                 because of keyboard mapping issues (assuming anyone wants to                 publish my material). I also recognise that the world doesn't                 revolve around my requirements. :-) Given that Coptic                 isn't exactly the majority of scholars of Biblical languages                 number one 'must have' font, an easy option would be for SBL to                 contact the Coptic Orthodox Church and arranged to endorse one                 of their fonts as the 'official' one and either have it                 downloadable from the SBL site or point to the appropriate place                 on the Coptic Orthodox                 site. Regards Judy -- "There is no                 socially and politically neutral theology; in the struggle for                 life and death, theology must take sides." - Miguez                 Bomino Rev Judy Redman Uniting Church                 Chaplain University of New England Armidale 2351 ph:                 +61 2 6773 3739 fax: +61 2 6773 3749 web:                 http://www.une.edu.au/campus/chaplaincy/uniting/ email:                 jredman@une.edu.au

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Posted by: Ken Penner
         
The new Coptic block is to be included in the new Unicode 4.1 standard
(slated for March 2005):
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-4.1/U41-2C80.pdf
I do not yet know of any fonts supporting these new characters, but I expect
David Perry's Cardo (http://scholarsfonts.net/) to be among the first.

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Posted by: John Hudson
         
Regarding keyboarding: we produced two keyboard drivers for Biblical Hebrew (one based on SIL's layout, and one on a new layout that I devised myself). Making Unicode keyboards is now pretty easy on both Windows and Mac (not sure about Linux), so it would be perfectly possible for Tiro, SBL or a third party to make a Coptic layout that corresponds to that used by the Coptic Orthodox Church.
         

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