Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

That ypogegrammeni/prosgegrammeni thing keeps cropping up, it seems. Looks like a real stumbling block. I learned a lot during a discussion we had about it on this list a few months ago. You may want to refer to the following paper on (ancient + modern) Greek typesetting and Unicode: http://gene

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:13 AM Subject: Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > That leaves dialytika, > > The same (in every respect) as Latin diaer

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

Edward Cherlin wrote: > That leaves dialytika, The same (in every respect) as Latin diaeresis. > prosgegrammeni, A neologism (AFAIK) of the Unicode Standard: the small lowercase iota used in place of hypogegrammeni (iota subscript) in titlecase text. (In archaic text, which is all-uppercase b

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

This, I had inadvertently sent privately, when I meant to send it to the list. This happens all the time, because the Unicode list does not set the reply address con- veniently (I hesitate to write "correctly", as that is subject to debate). --- Forwarded mail from Otto Stolz Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

At 20:16 -0800 2001/1/22, Curtis Clark wrote: >First the off-topic; private responses, please. > >My wife has a ring of modern manufacture that has the lower-case >Greek delta-iota-alpha, with circumflex on the iota. The catalog >blurb represents the word as meaning "goddess". My textbook (Chase

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

Patrick Rourke wrote: >I imagine that the capitals with > diaresis are there for text that's in all capitals but is accented. One modification: I have the impression that capitals with diaresis are also quite widely used, and may indeed be considered obligatory, with normal all-uppercased text th

Re: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

ist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:10 AM Subject: RE: Greek questions, on- and off-topic > > My Greek textbook has acute, grave, and circumflex (called by > > those names), > > but I'm not sure what these correspond to in the Greek and >

RE: Greek questions, on- and off-topic

> My Greek textbook has acute, grave, and circumflex (called by > those names), > but I'm not sure what these correspond to in the Greek and > Greek Extended > blocks (there seem to be many more diacriticals than those). > Is there an on-line guide somewhere? There are in fact other diacriti

Greek questions, on- and off-topic

First the off-topic; private responses, please. My wife has a ring of modern manufacture that has the lower-case Greek delta-iota-alpha, with circumflex on the iota. The catalog blurb represents the word as meaning "goddess". My textbook (Chase and Phillips, _A new introduction to Greek_) says