I think I had somehow assumed that the symbols used in Greek Horoscopes had
already been encoded, but it seems not.
The four signs used to mark the principal corners (ascendant, etc) of the
horoscope diagram are shown in the attachment, taken from
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/greek_horoscope.html
These look as if they were actually ligatures.
Without knowing the greek words for the principal corners, I'd read them
as a rho-omega-kappa, a pi-upsilon, an alpha (delta?)-upsilon-nu-omega and
a rho-mu ligature. I wouldn't be surprised, if these letters were
abbreviations for some expanded
Oh, actually the *very*hompage*you*linked* makes it quite clear, that these
are not symbols, but abbreviatures (emphasis by color by me; the original
page uses a somewhat unusual transliteration scheme):
— These are just completely ordinary late ancient/medieval abbreviations, I
would not think
On 10/29/2012 12:48 PM, Szelp, A. Sz. wrote:
These look as if they were actually ligatures.
(typo)graphically a number of forms may be ligatures.
For text encoding, it would be important to understand whether such
fused forms are used interchangeable with forms that are not fused - and
in
You've got a good point that these are not simple esthetic ligatures.
If they represent more than the combined letters used to note an
abbreviation, then why not encoding in test the implied (but missing)
letters, surrounded by some format controls stating that the
srurrounded letters are actually
I forgot to say that HTML provides a standard element for this:
abbrmu rho/abbr, where you can add the implied semantic of the
full abbreviation in an attribute (in a separate plain-text stream),
including the possible substitution rule for an alternate rendering
symbol (as an image, or SVG glyph
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