Re: U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI not usable in other scripts as "hook below"?

From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sat Jun 17 2006 - 05:29:15 CDT

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    John Hudson wrote on Saturday, June 17, 2006 at 4:01 AM

    > Well yes and no. Pretty much any Greek typography expert will probably
    > tell you that the adscript is correct following the relevant uppercase
    > Greek vowels in the polytonic system. One does sometimes see subscript
    > iotas in this context, and they are understood by readers, but they are
    > not correct according to the canons of quality Greek publishing.

    Is this also the Greek view? (I presume there is such a thing as Greek
    quality Greek publishing.) I got the impression from
    http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_adscript.html that
    subscript iotas on capitals were perfectly acceptable to Greeks.

    Richard.



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