Date:  Sun, 25 Feb 1996 05:04:03 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: OE fonts



I presume somebody might enjoy this info and can use it.



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>From: Carl Berkhout <CTB[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU>

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>Earlier this evening Peter Baker announced a new, improved basket of his

>Old English fonts (for both PC and Mac users). Brill. I've just

>downloaded and played a bit with the Mac version. Although I haven't

>yet experimented with every single character, it's clear that Peter

>provides the best possible fonts for those of us who must use not only

>thorns and eths but also other features in our roughly-diplomatic

>transcriptions or citations of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. All ten thumbs

>up, Peter. Cheers.

>

>I attach below a slightly-abridged copy of Peter's posting to ANSAXNET,

>which explains how to get the fonts. And, yes, the fonts are free. The

>dot-com people don't rule the Internet quite yet. (Peter's Jefferson

>Fontworx locale is facetious. You'll do better to look for him in UVA's

>Dept of English.)

>

>Carl Berkhout

>

>> Just a word to tell the good ANSAXNET folks who have been using

>> my "Old English Font Pack" that I have posted an upgrade on an

>> ftp site here at the University of Virginia. Like earlier

>> versions, this one includes "Junius," the seventeenth-century

>> "Saxon" typeface, and "Junius Modern," which is like "Junius" but

>> with modern letter-shapes substituted for insular ones and with a

>> large number of special characters useful to students and

>> scholars of Old English: vowels with macrons and breves, crossed

>> thorn, yogh, many Latin suspensions, and so on. "Junius Modern"

>> now comes in regular, italic, bold, and bold italic. This version

>> also includes a typeface in the "Junius" style, but with the

>> standard Macintosh or Windows character set; it is intended to

>> enable you to type the non-Old-English parts of your document in

>> a style compatible with that of "Junius" and "Junius Modern."

>>

>> The package still includes "Anglo-Saxon Caps" and "Beowulf-1,"

>> both fonts which imitate Old English script.

>>

>> The address of the ftp site is bowers.lib.virginia.edu; the

>> directory is /pub/Baker (notice the capital). The site is

>> accessible via Netscape (ftp://bowers.lib.virginia.edu/pub/Baker)

>> or Fetch, or standard ftp. Login as "anonymous" and give your

>> e-mail address as a password. Remember to set the file type to

>> binary.

>>

>> The Macintosh files are self-extracting archives: download one of

>> them to your computer and double-click it, and it will make a

>> folder with the necessary files in it. You will need Pkunzip or

>> the equivalent to extract the Windows files from the Zip

>> archives.

>>

>> As always, these fonts are free. Happy computing!

>>

>> Peter Baker

>> at the Jefferson Fontworx, Charlottesville, VA

>

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