"Arial" (sans-serif) style faces are by far the most common in the signs I've seen pictures of, just as they are in countries that use the Roman alphabet. The Greeks themselves already seem to happily avail themselves of every possible kind of font face style, just as we do with the Roman alphabet in the West. I've never been to Greece but I've seen Greek newspapers and I've seen snapshots of Greek signs, whether roadsigns, shops, or whatever. Now the question: how could people type it with the old typewriters, before the the computer age? How many keys has a greek typewriter? Just curious. Whatever system you choose, typesetting polytonic is a bit complicated. No a big problem, I use the LaTeX inviroment but I could use just the Spionic fonts for my wordprocessor OpenOffice. Since I am wrinting a thesis on Roman law, I need to write some Greek in the "polytonic way". Very interesting, I think I should learn modern greek, it reallly a beautiful language. Believe it or not, but I criedīy the way, many people (including me) still use the polytonic writing and even print polytonic books, journals, newspapers, and magazines. But one unhappy day I learned from our teacher that polytonic writing was replaced by monotonic. In my childhood, I had to learn all polytonic accents and breathing marks in order to read and write my language properly - and I really ENJOYED IT.
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