Stigma and Final Sigma
Mark Goodacre
M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Fri Nov 1 20:18:02 EST 2002
Huge thanks to Stephen, Carl and Daniel for sorting me out on stigma,
digamma, final sigma et al -- just what I was looking for.
On 31 Oct 2002 at 22:42, Stephen C. Carlson wrote:
> Because of its similarity in shape to the final sigma,
> the stigma is sometimes replaced by the final sigma,
> perhaps due to computing limits or out of ignorance.
> The SP Ionic font has both the final sigma (j) and the
> stigma (v).
It is interesting you should mention this because it relates to what
generated my interest in the first place. David Instone Brewer has
for a while had an excellent "Tyndale Fonts Kit" on the Tyndale House
web site and he has recently added some extra documentation, to which
I was adding a link on the Greek NT Gateway. The problem I've always
had with the Tyndale Fonts Kit, though, and still the reason I'm
loathe to recommend it to my students is that in its reworking of
SPIonic, it automatically adds at the end of words not the final
sigma (which, as you point out, is normally mapped to the "j") but
the stigma (normally mapped to the "v"). I was looking to see if
this was still the case on the Tyndale Fonts Kit, and it is. I then
began to wonder if I'd perhaps misunderstood the relationship between
stigma and final sigma. As it happens, it seems that I was right
about final sigma and stigma being different; but I see that
actually I was confused overall about the relationships between
these. So thanks again for the useful clarifications.
All best
Mark
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