[B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek

P R prittman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 20:30:38 EDT 2010


So far, none of the Greek fonts I've installed have been able to show
breathing marks immediately above the vowels, and it looks incredibly
strange when they are situated the space before. I can't stop looking at the
letters wondering how to move them below the marks.

So when we say, "It's ok to type in a Greek font without the accents," are
breathing marks included in that?
Paul Rittman


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, P R <prittman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I typically have a heck of a time getting accent marks on Greek letters
> that I type in MS Word, and recently came across a transcript from another
> list, some of whose members were saying that they don't use accent marks
> when writing out ancient Greek letters, since they are either unnecessary or
> conjectural (in that the system of accents was inserted centuries after
> Greek writing first developed).
>
> Honestly I'd love to junk the entire system of accents if I could. What do
> the people on this list have to say about ancient Greek accents?
>
> I didn't see a way to search the archives, and I didn't see anything like
> this in the previous couple of months.
>
> Paul Rittman
>



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