GREEK LETTERS: FROM TABLETS TO PIXELS

Edited by Michael S. Macrakis

Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 1996

Contents

Foreword, Michael S. Macrakis

Introduction, Michael S. Macrakis

1. The development of Greek printing types, Hermann Zapf [keynote address]

THE ANTIQUITY OF THE GREEK ALPHABET

2. The early diffusion of Greek alphabet, Kyle P. MacCarter

3. Athenian letter-cutters and lettering on stone in Vth to Ist centuries B.C., Stephen V. Tracy

FROM TABLETS TO GUTENBERG

4. Formes de l'alphabet grec en occident du moyen age a la Renaissance, Anna Pontani

5. Les origines de la capitale typographique greque, Jean Irigoin

6. From manuscript to print, Agamemnon Tselikas

7. The relationship of Greek manuscripts and printing types in 15th century Italy, Nicolas Barker

8. From the Grecs du Roi to the Homer Greek: Two centuries of Greek printing types in the wake of Garamond, John E. Lane

9. Greek typography: The English contribution, John H. Bowman

CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS

10. Graphe, soeur jumelle de Clio, dixieme fille de mnemosyne, Jerome Peignot

11. The psysiognomy of the Greek typographical letter, Takis Katsoulidis

12. The typeface Theokritos of Yannis Kefallenos, Emmanuel Ch. Kasdaglis

13. Which came first, the Greeks or the Romans?, Matthew Carter

14. Oblique or italics? A Greek typographic dilemma, George D. Matthiopoulos

THE ECONOMICS OF QWERTY

15. A watershed in the history of Greek script: Abolishing the polytonic, Nicolaos M. Panayotakis

16. Polytonic Greek fonts and keyboards in the United States, Jeffrey Rusten

17. A family of public-domain Greek fonts, Silvio Levy

18. The Ibycus Greek font: The use of encodings and ligatures, Pierre A. MacKay

19. Typesetting a science book: Fonts, styles, figures, Constantinos Mylonas

20. Algorithms for typeface designs: Greek, Latin, and Cyrillic texts, Louis Rosenblum

21. The handling of Greek characters in computers, Alexios Zavras

22. The tower of Babel: A heretical view. Coding of character sets for computers and telecommunications, Evangelos E. Melagrakis

23. Character codes for Greek: Problems and modern solutions, Stavros M. Macrakis

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

The future of the Greek type design

chair: Michael B. Sakellariou and Michael S. Macrakis

panel members: Nicolas Barker, Matthew Carter, Takis Katsoulidis, Jerome Peignot and Hermann Zapf