Ypatia and Ismini greek fonts

[Info-Mac]

Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/font/ypatia.hqx

Ypatia, a greek scientific font

Ypatia is a font for the typesetting of scientific documents in greek using
TeX.
It is thus complementing Knuth's Computer Modern fonts.

Ypatia is based on the Ismini-Clio family of fonts developed by one of us
(NG).

The name has been chosen in honour of Hypatia of Alexandria, the greatest
woman mathematician of the ancient era. (Read "A brief history of Ypatia"
included in this package.)
The spelling of the font name was chosen so as to give the correct greek
spelling when displayed in the same font.

This package includes the font in both bitmat and postscript versions and
the Ypatia keyboard. Snapshots of the four possible keyboards are also
included as a Š Word document, against the objections of one of us (VG).
We include also AFM data as well as the metric files to be used with the
TeX typesetting program Textures (BlueSky research,
http://www.bluesky.com/)

Ypatia is meant as a typesetting font. It is not meant as a screen font for
the source text. Textures' editor uses the Monaco font for this task. While
Ypatia can be used and at a size of 14 points can even be readable enough
what is really needed is a greek non-proportional font. This will be
addressed in some, hopefully, non-remote future.

Paris, February 1999

Nikos Goulandris (nicolas.goulandris@wanadoo.fr)
Vasilis Grammaticos (grammati@paris7.jussieu.fr)

PS. Ypatia is (obviously) a Macintosh font. If somebody is interested in
(God forbid!) a Wintel version of Ypatia he/she can contact the authors at
the above e-addresses. (The results are NOT guaranteed).