Re: Missing old Greek ligature/letter omicron+upsilon above

2010-09-19 Thread Nick Nicholas
. === O Roeschen Roth! Der Mensch liegt in tiefster Noth! Der Mensch liegt in tiefster Pein! Je lieber moecht' ich im Himmel sein! --- _Urlicht_ opoud...@optusnet.com.au :: http://www.opoudjis.net :: skype:opoudjis Dr Nick NICHOLAS, Australian National Data Service, Melbourne

Polytonic Greek pneuma letters (spirits) and half-eta glyphs

2004-10-08 Thread Nick Nicholas
... -- -- Dr Nick Nicholas, French/Italian/Spanish, University of Melbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opoudjis.net My most mighty, God-respected, God-glorified, God-promoted, God-governed, God-magnified Holy Lord King. Health and merriment to your soul, vigour and well-being

Drumming them out

2004-04-30 Thread Nick Nicholas
or anything... P.S. If we could have Phoenecian decompose to Hebrew or vice versa, we wouldn't have a problem. But refusing to add further decompositions is yet another political imperative. :-) -- Nick Nicholas, French/Italian/Spanish, Dera me xhama te larme, Univ. Melbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Klingons and their allies - Beyond 17 planes

2003-10-17 Thread Nick Nicholas
On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 02:04 Australia/Melbourne, Nick Nicholas wrote: On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 00:31 Australia/Melbourne, Ecartis wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:00:45 +0100 From: Jill Ramonsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Klingons and their allies - Beyond 17 planes The reason

Re: Klingons and their allies - Beyond 17 planes

2003-10-17 Thread Nick Nicholas
On Saturday, Oct 18, 2003, at 03:41 Australia/Melbourne, Peter Kirk wrote: On 17/10/2003 09:12, Nick Nicholas wrote: ... or for that matter Meroitic (since, as Bunz has often argued, specialists on ancient languages only ever work in transliteration, so the scholarly market won't use them

Byzantine musical notation

2003-10-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
symbols; but I'd like to make sure. Furthermore, does the scheme encompass the variants of Byzantine notation used outside Greece, e.g. in Russia? -- Edarh oni oroumene NICK NICHOLAS PhD, French/Italian, kouraste na mpainei, University of Melbourne, Australia apo ton kosmo entenh

Greek: Heta

2003-10-04 Thread Nick Nicholas
Nick NICHOLAS, French Italian, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Greek unicode mailing list

2003-09-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
are also on topic there.) So far the list has been relatively quiet, and mostly dealing with implementation issues. -- Nick Nicholas, French/Italian, Univ.Melb. Dera me xhama te larme, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dera mbas blerimit http://www.opoudjis.net Me xhama

Re: TLG and Beta code

2003-08-27 Thread Nick Nicholas
On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 18:55 Australia/Melbourne, Ecartis wrote: From: Raymond Mercier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TLG and Beta code Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:49:20 +0100 David, I am glad to see this much progress, yet, as I noticed after posting, the zero symbol is actually missing in

Nick on prosgegrammeni

2003-07-03 Thread Nick Nicholas
on. -- * Dr Nick Nicholas, French Italian Studies [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rm 637 Arts Centre, Melbourne University, Australiawww.opoudjis.net *Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of locutional rendering

Re: Lunate, Terminal, and Medial Sigma

2002-11-09 Thread Nick Nicholas
But as Patrick knows, my piece on sigma (http://www.opoudjis.net/dist/sigma.html) presents what I at least think are good reasons to keep 'em separated. =-- Dr Nick Nicholas. Unimelb, Aus. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Greek: Haralambous proposals

2002-06-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
Nick Nicholas. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.opoudjis.net University of Melbourne: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chiastaxo dhe to giegnissa, i dhedhato potemu, ma ena chieri aftumeno ecratu, chisvissemu.(I Thisia tu Avraam)

RE: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-04 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
ma sign too; I lived in Greece from 1979 to 1983, and never saw anything but delta chi rho, unligatured, for drachma. I've been wondering for a fair while what it's doing there... -- Momenton senpretende paseman mi retenis kaj # NICK NICHOLAS. kultis kvazaux

Final letters in Hebrew and Arabic

2001-03-09 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
medial? Instances from any typographical practice, not just the current mainstream, are welcome. -- Nick Nicholas. TLG, UCI, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis Many among their proselytes had sold their lands and houses to increase the public riches of the sect --- at the expense

RE: Help with Greek special casing

2001-03-03 Thread Nick Nicholas
in. :-) Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis "All the nations also under his dominion were filled with joy and inexpressible gladness at not being even for a moment deprived of the benefits of a well ordered gover

Spacing diacritics in Greek Extended

2001-02-28 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
ortunately the main online resource for converting into Unicode polytonic Greek (Sean Redmond's, http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/convert.php3) is well-behaved in this regard. -- Nick Nicholas. TLG, UCI, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis Many among their proselytes had sold t

RE: Help with Greek special casing

2001-02-26 Thread Nick Nicholas
Nick, If you have a lowercase sigma in the middle of the word followed by a diacritic is it final; sigma, hacek, some other letter. No, sir. And medial sigma-diacritic is far more frequent than a sigma having a diacritic word-finally. Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. [EMAIL

RE: Help with Greek special casing

2001-02-26 Thread Nick Nicholas
reprinted in conventional orthography. (The Mariupolitans are now using Cyrillic; the ex-Soviet Pontians are mostly migrating to Greece, and I don't know if they're still writing their dialect.) -Original Message----- From: Nick Nicholas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:53 PM T

Re: Klingon? take a look

2001-02-26 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
Oh, and http://www.klingonska.org/piqad/ . Sorry. -- Nick Nicholas. TLG, UCI, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis Many among their proselytes had sold their lands and houses to increase the public riches of the sect --- at the expense, indeed, of their unfortunate children

Re: Klingon? take a look

2001-02-26 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
, it's more a logo than a glyph. The interested may want to check out http://www.klingonska.org/piqadpic.html , which has the most information on the script. -- Nick Nicholas. TLG, UCI, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis Many among their proselytes had sold their lands and houses

Re: Help with Greek special casing

2001-02-25 Thread Nick Nicholas
s- prefix trick. Nick Nicholas, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis "All the nations also under his dominion were filled with joy and inexpressible gladness at not being even for a moment deprived of the benefits of a wel

Re: Four characters from Greek Extended block missing?

2001-02-16 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
occurs 37 times in a corpus of 76 million words of Greek; lower case upsilon with a smooth breathing occurs 373 times. With epigraphical data, this will obviously be more frequent. -- Nick Nicholas. TLG, UCI, USA. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis Many among their proselytes had sold

RE: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-20 Thread Nick Nicholas
, the accuracy of its coverage of Papua New Guinea or South America is surely more important an issue to evaluate than what it has to say about Europe. Nick Nicholas, TLG, University of California, Irvine [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis "My most mighty, God-res