Fixed width Greek unicode fonts

I’ve been trying to work with the latest version of Jim Tauber’s MorphGNT text file.  For those who don’t know it, it contains all the words in the Greek New Testament, one per line, each identified as noun/verb/plural/whatever, with the word itself as found in the text, plus the dictionary form of the word.  No English meaning; but that can be got from using the dictionary form to look up the meaning in the XML file of Strong’s dictionary.

The Greek used to be present in beta-code, but Jim has now converted to unicode.  That’s fine; except that you now need a font in which to work on it.  Like most text files, you want a fixed-width font.

I suspect Jim does his magic on linux, where one is available.  But on Windows there is no such free font.  I understand, tho, that the new version of “Courier New” shipped in Vista will do the trick.

I came across this discussion in a typographic forum, where a Microsoft font-person lurks.  It lists some of the possible commercial fonts you could use.

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