At 07:27 AM 11/8/2000 -0800, Lukas Pietsch wrote:
>Gosh, sounds terrible, indeed!
>But *is* polytonic Greek ever actually set in this way? Doesn't sound like a
>very common thing to do. I can't remember having ever seen it.
Insofar as there are _very_ few available Greek typefaces with smallcap
sets, it isn't surprising that Greek is not often seen set this way --
polytonic or monotonic --, but the same typographic, mise en page reasons
for Latin smallcaps also apply for Greek -- and Cyrillic, of course. An
example of Greek smallcaps in use, including the miniature form of the
prosgegrammeni, can be seen in Laurentius de Alopa�s 1496 edition of the
works of Apollonius of Rhodes, reproduced in Scholderer's _Greek Printing
Types_. As the American type designer Frederic Goudy famously quipped, the
old fellows stole all our best ideas; these ideas may, however, have been
neglected in the intervening five hundred years.
John Hudson
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