b-greek index: April 17, 1999

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 19 12:48:38 EDT 1999





>From: "Carl W. Conrad" 

>David A Bielby I wrote:

>>I would like to suggest a concerted effort be made to               
>>get a Greek Font for the B-Greek List that everyone can use.

>We ought to have something usable by
>everyone without exception.
>
>(b) There's a sobering thought about this, however:                  
>use of such a font as
>SPIonic would require learning what amounts to                       
>a new keyboard for typing
>the Greek with breathing marks and accents

>What this means, I think, is that any transition to some new way of 

citing
>Greek text is going to involve no less hardship and learning problems 

than
>our present schemes of transliteration. I shall be very happy to be
>corrected if that is not really the case.

For my money, I would settle for simply a ms uncial font, say 
Sainiticus, that would avoid the vast majority of the problems you 
cite.

XARIC 

 
George Blaisdell 
Roslyn, WA 


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