How well does GreekKeys Unicode work with Word 2011?
GreekKeys 2008 for Mac OS X continues to work properly in Word 2011, although there is a bug that may cause minor annoyance and the support for OpenType ligatures has been modified. (Separate from issues connected to GreekKeys, there are other bugs and features in Word 2011 that may degrade usability or disturb the user’s long-established work habits.) First, with Word 2011, as with earlier versions, many fonts are installed. Two items of good news. (1) More fonts have polytonic Greek support. (2) Palatino Linotype is now included: this font is extremely popular among users of Word for Windows, but previously was not supplied to Mac users. One item of bad news: after installation you need to open Font Book and search out the duplicate fonts and carefully determine which items are the newest and make sure they are activated and the older versions are disabled. This is laborious because when fonts occur in the four styles (regular, italic, bold, bold italic), it is usually the case that
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