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• Ancient Greek on Computers
Paul Fonck explains how to display and edit Ancient Greek on computers and gives some information related to the HQ2002 on-line Greek class.
http://www.geocities.com/pfonck/

• Antioch Greek Utility
Download Ralph Hancock's shareware utility and fonts for writing Unicode Greek in Word 97/2000. Includes converters for numerous other encodings, and an optional autocorrect feature for accenting commonly-typed words automatically.
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~hancock/antioch.htm

• Apaxnion
Greek font for Macintosh and Windows.
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/graeca/g_nota.html

• Athenian Font
For Macintosh or Windows. To type using the font, you have to buy a $50 GreekKeys program.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Help/Athenian_Font.html

• CGreek Project Homepage
A package for reading and composing classical Greek text using Emacs.
http://m17n.org/cgreek/

• Diogenes
A tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts published by the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/diogenes/

• Galilee Greek Font
Development site for the Galilee Greek font project which is designing a Unicode Greek font optimized for use on screen.
http://faculty.bbc.edu/rdecker/galilee.htm

• Ismini
FTP link to Greek type A font for X systems (such as Linux). It may be easier to install a TTF program and use Windows fonts.
ftp://gouda.perseus.tufts.edu/pub/Ismini.pfa

• Magenta Software: Polytonistis
Commercial utility for writing Unicode Greek in Word 97/2000. Includes several very nice Unicode fonts.
http://www.magenta.gr/

• Matthew Robinson's Greek Font Utilities
Extensive resources for writing Greek using WinGreek compatible fonts. Freeware macros for MS Word and Corel WordPerfect, and links to shareware fonts.
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ball0087/download/

• SIL Greek Font System
Fonts and tools for specifically designed for Biblical Greek texts.
http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/silgreek/

• Silver Mountain Software
Software for Classical and Koine Greek studies. Includes the $20 shareware font and utility pack "SGREEK", which can be used on the Perseus Project site. Font allows typing using Beta code.
http://www.silvermnt.com/

• SMK Greekeys
Homepage of widely-used Greek Keys application for both Mac and PC. The PC version is no longer available, being superceded by Unicode utilities. The Windows font Athenian is still available for download for use with the Perseus website.
http://www.greekkeys.cornell.edu/

• SPIonic-Macintosh
FTP link to a Sans-Serif Greek font for Macintosh (type using Beta code).
ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/SPIonic.sit.hqx

• SPIonic-Windows
FTP link to a very nice Sans-Serif TTF Greek font (uses Beta code). Very readable.
ftp://scholar.cc.emory.edu/pub/fonts/windows/SPIONIC_.TTF

• The Greek Font Foundry
Download Porson, a free unicode Greek font; requires a utility such as Antioch or Ukeys.
http://www.geocities.com/greekfonts/

• Tonismos
Resource to assist with Greek text file conversion.
http://www.tonismos.gr/

• Ukeys for Word
Shareware utility for writing Greek in Miscrosoft Word. Requires a unicode font (not included).
http://hometown.aol.com/AtticGreek

• Unicode Polytonic Greek
A discussion of the Unicode standard as pertains to usage by classicists.
http://www.stoa.org/unicode/

• Wordbase Greek
Wordbase is a tutorial and Greek dictionary program to help you learn the language of the New Testament. Practice grammar and vocabulary or play "hangman."
http://www.algonet.se/~kihlman/greek.html