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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: greek circumflex
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.185322.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug28.213404.28565@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 18:53:22 PDT
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- In article <1992Aug28.213404.28565@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
- > I'm using Levy's greek fonts and at the same time am learning classical
- > Greek. My text, by Harvard Univ Press, uses a rounded '^' for a circumflex,
- > but Levy uses a '~'. Which is more common in classical greek texts?
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- They're interchangable and depend primarily on the font used. My
- text from Fordham U uses ~. I have other books which use ^. I
- wouldn't worry about it (you might as well worry about the shapes
- of rho and kappa).
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