BPBible

One way to improve this already excellent software is to add a wiki item on finding and installing fonts that display Greek properly, particularly accented characters. After considerable searching and surfing the web, I discovered that the fonts I lacked were already present on my computer, yet not in the correct place. The fix was simple.

The following worked for me (using BPBible 0.4.4 on Windows XP) and may well work for others.

1. Understand that you need polytonic unicode Greek fonts. Plain old unicode Greek fonts did not display the accented Greek characters correctly. Nonunicode Greek fonts don't work at all.

2. See Russell Cottrell's web page on polytonic Greek fonts --
http://www.russellcottrell.com/greek/fonts.asp

3. Download your choice of these fonts using links on Cottrell's page or look to see if you already have fonts that work. Specifically, if you have a recent version of Adobe Reader or Acrobat, then you already have the MinionPro collection of fonts in a folder like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Resource\Font. As Cottrell explains, MinionPro includes polytonic Greek in unicode.

However, Windows applications like BP Bible will not recognize the fonts when they are in the Adobe directory.

4. Install the fonts into the proper directory by Start / Settings / Control Panel / Fonts / File / Install New Fonts ... Then you will have two copies in two locations on your computer, one serving Adobe products, the other serving most other Windows products. MinionPro fonts work well for me, displaying all Greek characters properly. Cottrell offers other choices too including his own Aristarcoj font.

I apologize for the length of this post, but proper fonts, once found and installed, do make a big difference.

-- Paul