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Being somewhat of a font packrat, I'm always on the prowl for new Greek fonts. I came across Ralph Hancock's Antioch utility. I've not used the utility itself, but the fonts included with the package are nice. What kept me coming back to his site, though, was the free extras towards the bottom of the page. There's a nice AutoCorrect entry manager for Word on the Windows platform, but none for the Mac side of things. So I found a way to use an Applescript to approximate what Hancock's VBA macros do. The Script Paste this script (without the equal signs above and below) into an AppleScript Editor Window: ===== (* AutoCorrect List Manager by J. W. Johnston Assumes an "=" between the name (left side, i.e., what you type) and the value (right side, i.e., what Word replaces it with) Seems to work best if you work with an unformatted text list. Each desired entry must go on a line by itself, no spaces separating the "=" Use at your own ...

If you pursue a degree in biblical studies, you will need to learn to type using appropriate typsetting conventions for ancient Greek. Ancient Greek (including the LXX and New Testament) uses the polytonic (multiple-accent) system. For the most part, modern Greek (officially since 1982 ) uses a simplified system called monotonic with the ancient accents reduced to one, and the breathing marks omitted. What is Unicode? Unicode is a system devised to represent all major languages and writing systems (including those with non-Western alphabets like Greek or Hebrew) without having to change fonts to do it (visit the Unicode Consortium for more information, or see the Wikipedia article). The advantage to using Unicode for ancient Greek is that the letters and accents are fully composed (no problems with letter spacing). This also means that language-specific data can travel across the Internet and across computing platforms (PC or Mac) without distortion. Unicode is replacing al...

Well, after being frustrated at finding a cybersquatter occupying greekfontsociety.org and greekfontsociety.gr, I finally decided to try searching again, and I came across the real Greek Font Society at http://www.greekfontsociety-gfs.gr/ .