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               1.0. WinGreek  is a  Software Package to enable IBM Personal
          Computers or Compatibles running Microsoft Windows to use ancient
          Greek  and  Hebrew  fonts.  It  consists  of two parts: Fonts and
          Utilities.
               1.1 Fonts. Bitmap/Raster Fonts  are available  for Hercules,
          EGA,  VGA,  super-VGA  (800x600)  and  8514 (1024x768) monitors /
          screens, Epson 9-Pin and 24-Pin Printers, and HP-Laser Jet Series
          II  /  III  /  IV  Laser  Printers  or Compatibles. Recently both
          Postscript (Adobe Type 1) and TrueType versions of  Greek, Hebrew
          and Coptic  Fonts were also released with WinGreek (Version 1.8).
          Using our Postscript Fonts under Adobe  Type Manager  or TrueType
          Fonts with  Windows 3.1  allows scalable Point Sizes and provides
          support for printers such as the HP Desk Jet-indeed for all other
          printers which are supported by Microsoft Windows. The Postscript
          Fonts may also be uploaded to a Postscript Printer as  a SoftFont
          using the Postscript Driver in Windows 3.0 / 3.1.
               1.1.1.  The  Greek  font  contains  a full set of diacritics
          (diaeresis,  Aristarchian  signs)  and  also  Accent  / Breathing
          combinations,  together  with  archaic  Greek  characters such as
          digamma, koppa and sampi. The Hebrew font contains consonants and
          vowel  points  (niqqud)  which  can  be combined using a macro in
          Word for Windows.
               1.1.2. Since the Greek and Hebrew fonts are  attached to the
          operating  system  of  Microsoft  Windows  and  are not part of a
          particular Word Processor, they  are  available  to  any  and all
          Windows executable  programs which allow for full font selection.
          So far WinGreek Fonts have been  tested with  Windows Write, Word
          For Windows,  Ami-Pro and  WordPerfect For  Windows. One can even
          use them in a data-base program  which allows  for font selection
          or a spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. Thus one need not
          be committed to  or  limited  by  particular  software.  Many new
          programs for the Windows graphical environment are being
          developed  either  for  desktop  publishing  or  data retrieval /
          storage and searching texts.
               1.1.3. The Windows operating  system is  a WYSIWYG graphical
          environment or  interface (What  You See  Is What  You Get). Thus
          WinGreek  allows  for  creation   of  documents   using  European
          languages in  combination with  ancient Greek  and Hebrew and one
          can see on screen exactly how the final  product will  print out.
          The Greek bolds, italicizes, subscripts or superscripts on screen
          matching what  will  print.  This  is  an  advantage  in creating
          complex documents.

               1.2. Utilities.  There are  two main utilities provided with
          WinGreek.
               1.2.1. First, there  is  a  keyboard  handler,  called BETA,
          which allows  for easy insertion of accented characters in Greek,
          Hebrew and European fonts. For example, in Greek you may  type an
          omega. If you type a forward slash (/) next, this will produce an
          acute accent on the omega. Accents and breathings may be combined
          on a  vowel. The  same procedure  is used for entering accents in
          European languages like the accent grave in French  or the umlaut





          in German.  All accents  in the ANSI Character Set are supported.
          In Hebrew, right to left typing is available  (but not  left word
          wrap  as  this  is  a  function  of the word processor). A set of
          macros is provided for Word for  Windows which  greatly eases the
          task  of  switching  between  Greek,  Hebrew and European fonts /
          languages within the same document. With only a  single keystroke
          one may switch functions in Beta and fonts in WinWord at the same
          time. There  are  also  some  specialized  macros  (for  Word For
          Windows )  which permit quick correcting of accents on a vowel in
          Greek or adding underdotting  for  epigraphical  or papyrological
          publications.
               1.2.2. The second utility is a conversion program (GRKCONV).
          This program takes Greek  and Hebrew  files in  the ASCII  or DOS
          Text  format  supplied  by  CCAT (Center for Computer Analysis of
          Texts, University  of Pennsylvania)  on their  Disks and CD-ROMs,
          and converts them for use under Windows. (Similarly, Scriptorium,
          a program created by Randall Smith  for searching  TLG (Thesaurus
          Linguae  Graece)  on  CD-ROM  uses  WinGreek Fonts). Thus one may
          convert, for example, a passage from the Bible to Greek or Hebrew
          and  insert  it  into  a  document under Word For Windows without
          typing out the text. Since Word For Windows allows searches to be
          font specific,  one can search texts containing several languages
          and search, for example, in Greek  only.  One  may  wish  to make
          notes on an ancient text. Simply import the text and add notes or
          edit as you like.

               2.0. WinGreek is available as "Shareware". It may be
          examined, tested, and tried  out for  free. Anyone,  however, who
          intends to  use the product must pay a registration fee of #20.00
          or $35.00 per computer. 2.1.  WinGreek  requires  Windows  3.0 or
          3.1, and  works best  with Word for Windows 1.1 or 2.0 (Winword).
           
          Email - INTERNET: peter@artsci.utoronto.ca 
           
          WinGreek 
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