Re: CGJ for Two Greek Ligatures?

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 11:23:52 CST

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    At 17:49 -0800 2005-03-04, UList@dfa-mail.com wrote:
    >There are two, similar, ligatures used in Ancient Greek
    >educational/reference materials.
    >
    >They look something like a percent sign.
    >
    >The first is composed of: a smaller raised epsilon + slash + smaller omicron.
    >
    >The second is composed of: a smaller raised eta + slash + smaller omega.
    >
    >For your reference, these are used attached to the root of a verb, to indicate
    >a particular kind of verb conjugation. They would only appear in a reference
    >environment, and never in normal running Ancient Greek text.

    These are not ligatures. They are a linguistic notation representing
    a discussion of the reflexes of Indo-European vowel gradation.

    Please try to find out something about what you are talking about
    before burdening this list with discussions of "ligatures" which are
    in no way "ligatures".

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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