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I have updated Theta and Omega...
...at www.etymologica.com. I have even added a forum, the loneliest place in the planet as of now :PCan you folks read the polytonic Greek fonts I am now using? Any comments at this point would be very valuable!! Thanks,Pav
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The fonts work fine in the browsers I tried (IE 7, Firefox, Safari).I wonder, since you're ordering the names by the Greek alphabet, it might make more sense to list the Greek spelling before the transliteration.Also a typo: in the "Seeing Greek names on your screen" section on the main page you repeat the word "and" twice.
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I am really stumped as to how I should sort the names. I thing your suggestion would be the most logical approach.Just corrected the typo!Thanks :}
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I can read the fonts, and your site is looking great...Want me to test the forum / make it less lonely? :)
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By all means :)
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I can read the polytonic fonts--I love them! It's a very nice site; well done.
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I can read the fonts just fine, thanks, Pavlos. And I didn't make any effort at all: up they obligingly came, clear and complete. And the clever pink and blue code works well too!It's going to be a magnum opus all right! I hope Mrs Pavlos and all the little Pavloses don't mind seeing less of you ...And a special word of thanks for the clock, which ticks away very cheerily and, being Greek, is in the same time zone as South Africa.All the best
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Thanks for the feedback Ammeza, you are too kind:)
Mrs Pavlos was understandably distraught last night when I was bottlefeeding "mini me" whilst clutching on my laptop and thumbing through a heap of musty old books :)Cheers,P
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I can see little thingies in the second rendition of Agacles (beside the upper case alpha and above the eta). My unicode table tells me those are respectively the Alpha with psili and the eta with perispomeni, whatever they are. So, if that is what you wanted, you have got it right. I don't see anything else with funny marks on the alpha page though.On the theta page, there are lots of marks: again my unicode table tells me these are additional goodies like dialytika, tonos, and varia. And the final sigma form is used in the right context.So, I guess on a typical linux installation that handles unicode right, I am seeing what you intended (I do not see it in the exact same font that you probably have on your machine, but as long as the unicode is right, people should be able to see it as long as they have one Greek unicode font on their machine). I will check from a mac sometime, but I am sure it works: I will post if it does not.
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As usual, Tanmoy, you're way ahead of the rest of us ... just for your information, I'm using a bog-standard office computer with MSWord loaded and also Firefox - which I use instead of Internet Explorer. And everything works just fine to my naive eyes! [All I've got in common with Shakespeare - little Latin and (much!) less Greek %( ]All the best
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I'm glad all the thingies and doodads are visible :)
Cheers,
P
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