From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45199 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "luigi scarso" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: minimals and greek font Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:22 +0100 Message-ID: References: <49009B92.4010603@wxs.nl> <6048c4180810271129t46784636xbfeb3df2d164ecb9@mail.gmail.com> <200810291505.41414.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <200810291512.50555.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <25EEFBE4-BD9C-48D8-B577-A7D0826F58FF@uni-bonn.de> <0D87A42A-A5C2-48EC-8B75-D1112A49C025@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0387110619==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225383584 3033 80.91.229.12 (30 Oct 2008 16:19:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:19:44 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 30 17:20:45 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KvaFq-0005rG-3c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:20:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38221FD06; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:19:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16849-03-6; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1D381FC84; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67DCE1FC82 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16849-03-5 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.146]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A566E1FC84 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:17:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 21so232368eyc.38 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.187.227.5 with SMTP id e5mr1051132far.17.1225383442492; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.187.211.5 with HTTP; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:17:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0D87A42A-A5C2-48EC-8B75-D1112A49C025@uni-bonn.de> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:45199 Archived-At: --===============0387110619== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_24253_2169203.1225383442483" ------=_Part_24253_2169203.1225383442483 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz < thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2008, at 4:27 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > [a bit OT] > > Do you know some fonts Arial/Helvetica like that are good for Greek ? > > I have some samples under mkii, and I would like to test them under > > mkiv minimals. > > > Hi Luigi, > > you're looking for sans fonts, right? No, I don't really have any good > Arial/Helvetica-like fonts. I mix Gentium with sans on my slides and > find it acceptable; Arial Unicode of course has Greek, but is really > ugly, as is Lucida Grande (on the Mac). Have a look at > http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces1.html > , maybe there's something you'll like. > *FS Neohellenic * looks interesting -- luigi ------=_Part_24253_2169203.1225383442483 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

On Oct 30, 2008, at 4:27 PM, luigi scarso wrote:

> [a bit OT]
> Do you know some fonts Arial/Helvetica like that are good for Greek ?
> I have some samples under mkii, and I would like to test them under
> mkiv minimals.
>
Hi Luigi,

you're looking for sans fonts, right? No, I don't really have any good
Arial/Helvetica-like fonts. I mix Gentium with sans on my slides and
find it acceptable; Arial Unicode of course has Greek, but is really
ugly, as is Lucida Grande (on the Mac). Have a look at http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces1.html
 , maybe there's something you'll like.
 FS Neohellenic
looks interesting
--
luigi

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