From: P. T. Rourke (ptrourke@methymna.com)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 13:07:17 EDT
Just for an additional note: the usual place to look for Greek and Latin
abbreviations and ligatures is Thompson, "Introduction to Greek and
Latin Paleography" (not the "Handbook to Greek Paleography"). In
miniscule manuscripts and miniscule typography (e.g., Aldus), they are
very, very common, and the list of abbreviations and ligatures is, as
suggested already, very long. I've been writing something on just this
issue just this past week. I would assume that they should be
represented in electronic texts with their normalized values and marked
up to indicate the ligatures in a higher protocol, and if exact
representation is necessary, transform the markup to entities and use
the PUA. Make sense to anyone?
Thanks.
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