Installing Greek fonts

[rraybould]

I have installed a new Greek font from a 3rd party. It shows in their demo
text in Word and in the font list but I can't get it to type. i.e. if I type
in a word document in the new font it just comes up in roman characters. The
convert text dialog box will not come up either even though I have ticked the
Tools/Options/General -Confirm conversion at Open.

Any suggestions

R Raybould

 

[Graham Mayor]

Have you set theWindows input language to Greek? Windows regional
settings.
It may help to add the Greek keyboard to Windows (you can use the onscreen
keyboard from Windows Accessories > Accessibility Options to display the key
mapping.

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[rraybould]

Yes and that does not seem to make any difference. Tho' I am not sure it is
taking. When I click on the Greek text provided by the demo it still comes up
with English.

The convert file box now comes up but converting it to unicode 8 as
instructed makes no difference.

Also when I click on the .ttf file in the fonts folder the font file comes
up as ordinary Roman characters.

Nevertheless the Greek characters shown in Word for their demo is finding
the font somewhere.

RRaybould

 

[rraybould]

Sorry I forgot to comment on your suggestion about the onscreen keyboard. I
put that on screen but I am not sure how to get key board mapping I do not
appear to have accessibility options and I am not sure how that would help.

RRaybould

 

[rraybould]

3rd reply !

I now find that the Tahoma font supplied with Windows is supposed to be a
Greek font but exactly the same thing applies: if you click on the font file
- it appears to be all in roman.

But this must be a common problem if Windows supplies the font.

Thanks

Rraybould

 

[Graham Mayor]

You will only get Greek script if you are typing in the Greek language. In
order to do that you must install Greek in Windows regional settings and
actually apply it. If English is the language at the cursor, roman script is
what you will get. The current language is indicated by the language toolbar
in the Windows system tray and you toggle through the installed languages
with Left Alt + Shift (or whatever alternative you have set up).

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[Graham Mayor]

The on screen keyboard shows the key settings for the *current Windows
keyboard* configuration. If you have Greek currently active then that
keyboard will show the Greek key mappings.

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[Graham Mayor]

You have not activated the Greek language and are thus still typing in your
native language.
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