Re: Experiments with classical Greek keyboard input

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Πιστιόλης Κωνσταντίνος wrote:
> Την Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:14:16 +0100,ο(η) Jan Willem Stumpel 
> <jstumpel@xxxxxxxxx> έγραψε/wrote:

>> My request for comment was, so far, only on the new 'font' section
>> of the document, section 4.5.
>> 
> 
> Ok, quite explanatory! Just one comment: ... Typographical fashions
> in Greece have now changed, so this solution is right for modern
> Greek also... It's not like a typographic fashion change; modern
> greek may still use any glyph for 'tonos'. [..]

I got the impression that typographical fashion in Greece has changed from
http://ptolemy.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/unicode_gkbkgd.html#oxia :

  It would be an exaggeration to say that the erstwhile dots and
  wedges have completely died out — especially as they have been
  given a new lease of life by font developers' sluggishness.
  However, the non-acute tonos seems to have become restricted
  to display type or otherwise marked circumstances; quality
  typography uses the acute.

This suggested some (recent?) change in typographical fashion to me.

Anyway, what I wanted to say is that the FreeSerif font now, in its very
latest version (Debian package ttf-freefont_20060126-0.1_all.deb),
displays alpha-oxia (0x3ac) the same as alpha-acute (0x1f7). So there is
some progress on the font side. The direct result is that on the
keyboard side, the need for a separate acute and tonos has become less
"acute"!

Regards, Jan



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