I have been writing a mathematical application in Java, and have
written a rendering engine for many different types of equations. One
problem that has persisted has been the treatment of Greek letters. It
was trivial to find the unicode values for Greek characters and use
them to render variables with names like pi or sigma, but the default
Greek font on my laptop is atrocious, and other machines don't seem to
have it at all. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about where
to get a decent, portable Greek font that looks fairly standard.
Oliver Wong - 25 Jan 2006 18:45 GMT
>I have been writing a mathematical application in Java, and have
> written a rendering engine for many different types of equations. One
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> have it at all. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about where
> to get a decent, portable Greek font that looks fairly standard.
Google for "free unicode font"
http://www.slovo.info/unifonts.htm
- Oliver
Roedy Green - 25 Jan 2006 19:49 GMT
> It
>was trivial to find the unicode values for Greek characters and use
>them to render variables with names like pi or sigma, but the default
>Greek font on my laptop is atrocious, and other machines don't seem to
>have it at all. I was wondering if anyone knows anything about where
>to get a decent, portable Greek font that looks fairly standard.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html
for sources of fonts, free and otherwise.

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jamesahart79@gmail.com - 25 Jan 2006 21:01 GMT
Thank you. Both of those links look very promising. When I get the
chance, I check both of them out.
jamesahart79@gmail.com - 25 Jan 2006 21:02 GMT
I meant, I'll check them out in more detail. I've looked at the
web-pages generally.