Re: Notifying new users of transliteration scheme

From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 1996 - 17:23:52 EDT


On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Randy Leedy wrote:
> [...] It occurs to me that it might be possible to
> put our suggested transliteration scheme into that message so that
> new users would get it automatically. If the message contained some
> indication of the scheme's origin, an explanation of its logic, an
> acknowledgment of other schemes used elsewhere, and an assurance that
> it is a suggestion and not a law (in other words, all the things that
> have been repeated so often over the past several months), perhaps
> the topic would not appear so often on the list. [...]

On Monday (or therabouts) Edward Hobbs posted a summary of the "common"
B-Greek-List transliteration scheme/conventions and I made a quick pass at
putting his reply up as net-page (under my homepage), primarily as a handy
resource to address the issues that Randy describes above.

However, when I mentioned my plans to Dr Hobbs he --in his usual wise
fashion-- suggested that I also include the e-mail discussion behind the
current informal set of conventions (which he then sent me copies of).
However, I was heading out the door on my way to a trip (which I'm still
on) and so was unable to finish up at that time.

So, when I get home --in a day or two-- I'll finish putting this page
together. Any other suggestions for inclusion are welcome.

Nichael

Nichael Cramer
nichael@sover.net
http://www.sover.net/~nichael/



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