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
proposal... -- -- 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 an

Drumming them out

2004-04-30 Thread Nick Nicholas
just not clear how expedient it is to do so. Not that I'm being helpful 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,

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'

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

Byzantine musical notation

2003-10-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
Byzantine 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 mpa"inei, University of Melbourne, Australia

Greek: Heta

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

Greek unicode mailing list

2003-09-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
ent scripts at least 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 t"e larm"e, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dera mbas blerimit http://www.opoudjis.

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

Nick on prosgegrammeni

2003-07-02 Thread Nick Nicholas
icit comment on. -- * Dr Nick Nicholas, French & Italian Studies [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Rm 637 Arts Centre, Melbourne University, Australiawww.opoudjis.net *"Eschewing obfuscatory verbosity of l

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 PROT

Greek: Haralambous proposals

2002-06-06 Thread Nick Nicholas
s on cap upsilons, talk to Adobe, not Unicode. The rest of the world does not want yet more precomposed forms to normalise; and I'm surprised at Haralambous' insistence on this old ground. -- [][][][] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Dr 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)

Square brackets

2001-10-08 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
veral moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept. [http://www.theonion.com/onion3734/god_clarifies_dont_kill.html] Nick Nicholas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opoudjis.net

RE: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-04 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
on). The drachma 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

Albanian alphabet

2001-03-07 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
dely known (von Hahn thought it was around 50 in Elbasan, and it was only known in a couple of towns), but there were manuscripts in it. -- 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 publi

RE: Help with Greek special casing

2001-03-03 Thread Nick Nicholas
hope those that can fix them are tuned 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 depri

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 s

Re: Klingon? take a look

2001-02-26 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
nerk), it should be dropped; even within the fictional universe, 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/~opo

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: Help with Greek special casing

2001-02-26 Thread Nick Nicholas
n Greek academia have been 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 PR

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 Lin

Re: Help with Greek special casing

2001-02-25 Thread Nick Nicholas
s you're pulling the 19th century pros- 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

Re: Four characters from Greek Extended block missing?

2001-02-16 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
n with a smooth breathing 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

Re: Greek Prosgegrammeni

2000-11-07 Thread Nick NICHOLAS
se iota. U+1fbc (*A| in Beta Code), being the capital version of U+1fb3 (A|) = U+03b1 + U+0345, makes more sense as still containing a diacritic than as containing a letter on decomposition, and would mean one less exception in collation (especially if StudlyCaps (tm) ever took off in Polytonic Greek

RE: [OT] Re: the Ethnologue

2000-09-20 Thread Nick Nicholas
case, given the nature of the SIL's work, and the ISO's current coverage, 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