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Galatia SIL

Greek Unicode Fonts

NRSI team, 2009-07-13; 182877 reads

    Introduction
    Features
        Keyboarding
        Converting text
    Requirements
    Supported character ranges
    Known Issues
    License
    Fonts Download
    Release History
    Support

Introduction

Galatia SIL is almost identical to the original custom-encoded SIL Galatia font, but is encoded according to Unicode 3.1 and is now released under SIL's SIL Open Font License (OFL).

The Galatia SIL fonts contain most of the symbols defined in Unicode 3.1 for Latin-1, Greek (excluding Coptic), Macintosh Character Set (US Roman), and 850WE/Latin-1 and are supplied in Regular and Bold weights.

Features

Two fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:

• Galatia SIL Regular
• Galatia SIL Bold

The Galatia SIL Greek Unicode Fonts are a new version of the SIL Galatia font released by SIL in 1997. This font package differs from SIL Galatia in the following ways:

• They are Unicode fonts. The encoding is entirely different from the old fonts.
• The name was changed to “Galatia SIL” to reflect new SIL font naming conventions.
• The Latin-1 codepage (“A-Z”, “a-z” plus some punctuation, etc.) is included in the font. This is to assist with viewing Latin or Roman text. The Macintosh character set for US Roman and the 850 WE/Latin-1 encodings are also included.
• There are no OpenType tables in this font. Thus, there is no automatic formation of the final sigma.

Keyboarding

You will need to use a keyboard program, but can use any Greek Unicode keyboard you prefer.

Converting text

Data typed with the old SIL Galatia fonts will have to be re-typed or converted before it will display with the Galatia SIL fonts. Conversion routines for SIL Galatia can be found here.

Requirements

These fonts were designed for the following systems:

• Windows 9x or greater
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Applications must support Unicode in order to use the fonts

Supported character ranges

Supported character ranges

Known Issues

The Galatia SIL font is not compatible with Microsoft Word 2004. The Galatia SIL fonts were developed before Word 2004 was released, so it was not possible to test them with Word 2004 prior to their release. We have encountered incompatibilities between Word 2004 and other SIL Unicode fonts as well, and have not determined the causes or cures.

In testing we found it was possible to type text in TextEdit, then cut and paste it into a Word 2004 document.

Please refer also to the information available on using SIL fonts on non-Windows operating systems.

License

Galatia SIL is released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), version 1.1. Copyright (c) 1995-2009, SIL International (http://scripts.sil.org/) with Reserved Font Names "Galatia" and "SIL".

Fonts Download

An older version of Galatia SIL is still available here. Note that the older version is not licensed under the OFL.

Release History

13 July 2009 - Version 2.1 mac license table fixed,

29 June 2009 - Version 2.1 released under the OFL, 'vdmx' table recalculated because of errors in the font causing some Java[tm] applications on some Windows machines to not display glyphs in Galatia SIL

7 May 2008 - Version 2.0.1b released, removal of Keyman keyboard

30 June 2005 - Version 2.0.1 released, bug-fix for issue causing crashes on Linux

October 2002 - Windows Unicode Version 2.0 released

Support

As these fonts and utilities are distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a commercial level of personal technical support. This is the final release of these fonts.

Please note that these fonts are intended for use by experienced computer users. Installing and using these fonts is not a trivial matter. The most effective technical support is usually provided by an experienced computer user who can personally sit down with you at your computer to troubleshoot the problem.

Before requesting technical support, please:

• Carefully read all the documentation provided with the fonts, including the documentation installed by the installation program.
• Check out all the links on the web pages for these font packages, and read all the information and instructions they contain.
• Review the list of Frequently Asked Questions to see if your question has already been answered. Additional information is also available on the general Font FAQ page.

If that fails to answer your question, or for more information, contact:

Backlinks (20 most popular; affiliated sites and popular search engines removed)
 http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html
 http://gainsford.tripod.com/archive.htm
 http://faculty.bbc.edu/RDecker/unicode.htm
 http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.html
 http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/unicode.htm
 http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/gkfonts.htm
 http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.htm
 http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/links.html
 http://www.tlg.uci.edu/
 http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_windows.html#greek
 http://www.geocities.com/fontboard/links.html
 http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~tlg/help/UnicodeTest.html
 http://www.tlg.uci.edu/%7Etlg/

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