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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

2852.0. "looking for greek fonts" by BEAGLE::LAFORGUE (It works better if you plug it!) Fri Jun 01 1990 11:59

This note is cross posted in the DECwindows, X and ULTRIX notesfile.

The European Economic Community (big customer) wants to write X applications
able to use greek language.
The only greek characters I found in the UWS distribution are in the
Symbols fonts and in the MIT grk-s25 or grk-s30.

Do you know where I can find grek fonts (preferably according to the
character set 4 defined in /usr/include/cda_def.h:
#define CDA$K_ISO_LATIN_GREEK 4         /* ISO Latin-Greek (ISO 8859-7)     */
) in different size, different thickness (normal and bold), etc.

Thanks for any help,
Bernard
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2852.1HANNAH::MESSENGERBob MessengerMon Jun 04 1990 15:116
Re: .0

Steve HANNAH::Mikulski's group developed a set of Greek terminal fonts
that you might be able to use.  Try sending him mail.

				-- Bob
2852.2ISOLatin-7 (Greek) not avail on UWS yet...ATHINA::SKARLATOSTwo pages...honest!Tue Jun 05 1990 10:3730
Bernard -

Greek handling on the X is as follows:

- The fonts exist for VMS, a conversion to ULTRIX would involve a copy
  and a compile, nothing more.
  The fonts that exist are terminal fonts only not the other 200+ fonts.
  They support DEC-Greek only, not ECMA (ISO-Latin7).

- Nothing has been written using this greek font, although our customers 
  are using it with COBOL/GENERATOR and various other tools.  I am using it
  with all available tools.  AGAIN this is VMS and DEC-Greek only.

- ISO-Latin7 handling will be at a later date.
- ULTRIX handling with both font sets will be at a later date.

- Compound strings have yet to be utilized with Greek.

These are approximately 24 font files that may not be up to perfection yet
but they will be as soon as I can find the time.

For everybodies information there is a VMS/DECTerm available that supports 
Greek it is not for general release, but it is available for special requests.
An ULTRIX version will be available soon, I need time on the ULTRIX machine.

Any and all localization questions should be directed to my self.

Kimon ATHINA::SKARLATOS   or   @HEL 

Please note the proper spelling.