Panther: Oct 24th

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Cool, I can read Ag's new sig without changing anything. Yeah for Unicode.

Thanks to your inspiration. I'd never really tried out the Unicode feature of Safari for anything other than reading Greek on line.

I take it you installed the font, or does OS X unbeknownst to me secretly support polytonic Greek?

[Drake Tungsten]

I take it you installed the font, or does OS X unbeknownst to me secretly support polytonic Greek?

I didn't install the font you linked to, so it must've already been on my computer. Probably came with OS X, but maybe Office installed it or something.

[Panag]

Originally posted by FlameFlash
panag, Students do get cut a serious break... I'd have to look and see if I got that much of one, but I'd wager it to be so.

hi ,

yep thats true , héy , thanks to one panag people paid less then they where thinking , some people ( yes even one at apolyton ) did not know they had the students rates , ...

the price stands at 129 USD http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...More=M9227LL/A

a family pack stands at 199 USD for 5 licenses http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...More=M9228LL/A

we paid at the office something lower a piece but still , no where near the 69 for a student , ..... btw , does anyone have the correct student rates

have a nice panther day

[FlameFlash]

Here's what it would be if, as a student, I ordered Panther right now...

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

I take it you installed the font, or does OS X unbeknownst to me secretly support polytonic Greek?

I didn't install the font you linked to, so it must've already been on my computer. Probably came with OS X, but maybe Office installed it or something.

OK - I'm intrigued, post a pic.

[CivPatriot]

So what features are all of you looking forward to about Panther? Having seen expose in action, i think that it is the feature i'll be using the most.

Panag, I don't have a "source" but i have a friend who does, that's how he got his copy for free. My discount was just part of the apple store for education, although with tax it ended up costing me in the neighborhood of 73 USD. So all in all one of the few advantages of being a student.

[Drake Tungsten]

OK - I'm intrigued, post a pic.

Here you go...

[Agathon]

That's ****ing incredible.

Mac OS X has built in support for polytonic Greek!!! That means that someone somewhere at Apple remembered us Classicists and our strange needs.

It's ****ing perfect too - not one missed accent AFAICS - even the combos.

And to think I've been downloading specialist Greek fonts for nothing (well to use in ****ty old MS Word).



Excellent... **** that **** Bill Gates and his **** software!!

Cheers Drake.

[FlameFlash]

Actually, I don't have it and I'm in OS X...

[Drake Tungsten]

Cheers Drake.

It is pretty cool, isn't it?

Actually, I don't have it and I'm in OS X...

Do you have your browser set to view Unicode? Most people don't, but I had mine set to it already in order to display the Japanese text in my sig. Ag's sig was readable in my browser right away, no font installation necessary.

[Agathon]

This is great. It means that there is now a standard for Greek on computers that actually works. I typed that in using another font and the old Greekkeys keyboard utility.

Has anyone tried setting IE to unicode and viewing?

[FlameFlash]

Now that my Browser is set to Unicode it seems to be working... interesting...

[Asher]

I didn't install that font and I see what Drake sees, in a different font, but they're the same characters.

Do you understand how Unicode works, Agathon?

I have a hard time understanding why this is "****ing incredible" when it has been around since 1999 on the Windows side.

[Agathon]

Shut up, troll.

It's not the unicode support that I'm happy about, but the Greek support.

And you can say what you like, Greek support on all platforms has not been great. I should know, I've had to deal with it for years. Unicode support in Word X is ****, which is why I'm upgrading to Nisus Writer X when it comes out.

I think I'm going to grab a utility to write my own keyboard layout just for Greek.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Agathon
Shut up, troll.

It's not the unicode support that I'm happy about, but the Greek support.

I'm still confused.
Unicode includes all of the Greek characters...

And you can say what you like, Greek support on all platforms has not been great. I should know, I've had to deal with it for years. Unicode support in Word X is ****, which is why I'm upgrading to Nisus Writer X when it comes out.

I dunno, I have no problems at all writing in Unicode in Word 2003 (lots of weird-ish symbols for mathy things).