[biblitfonts] Re: SBL Glyph Set 0.87

Hi folks.

I've recently been added to this list. My name is Rick Brannan, and I
work with Eli Evans and Bob Pritchett at Libronix. Think of me as the
"Eli" for Greek.

The only place offhand that I know of (granted, that's not saying much)
that comes close to prescribing order for some of these characters is
the unabridged Liddell & Scott (ninth edition). It lists articles for
the following:

Digamma: Between epsilon and zeta (p. 752).
San: Between pi and koppa (p. 1562)
Koppa: Between san and rho (p. 1562)

(thus: pi, koppa, san, rho)

Note that BDAG (and BAGD) place a stigma section (consisting of one
article) between epsilon and zeta as well. I'm not sure what effect that
would have on the above-mentioned placement of digamma.

Regarding our (i.e. Logos/Libronix') use of 0x02BC vs. 0x1FBD --  I
think that 0x1FBD is the proper character, though we've used 0x02BC
internally to represent this glyph as well. There are other reasons for
this we don't need to discuss here, I think primarily to do with legacy
data and legacy conversion issues into Unicode (before there was a
"Greek Extended" range.

----------------------------
Rick Brannan
rick (at) libronix (dot) com
http://www.libronix.com
Hos. 6:1-3


-----Original Message-----
From: John Hudson [mailto:tiro@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 2:09 PM
To: BibLit
Subject: [biblitfonts] SBL Glyph Set 0.87


Dear All,

Attached is the latest spreadsheet for the overall SBL BibLit glyph set,

now colour coded to help me keep track of the development phases.
Although 
most of the Latin alphabetic glyphs are designated as 3rd phase,
excepting 
those used for Greek uppercase composites, I will probably design most
of 
them during the phase 2, Greek development to ensure harmony between the

two scripts.

In this version of the spreadsheet, I have added the new Greek
characters 
and reordered a few of the archaic and extra Greek letters. I would much

appreciate it Gerry and David could take a look over the Greek section
and 
let me know if they think anything should be added. I know Gerry will 
immediately note the absence of Greek smallcaps: these were not included
in 
the initial bried to keep the cost manageable (the Latin smallcaps are 
being donated by Tiro), but I'm still considering adding them. Rick 
mentioned today that at least one NT edition uses all caps when directly

quoting the Septuagint; having a set of Greek smallcaps available would 
improve the look of such things. The glyph set does already include, 
however, a set of Greek superior lowercase letters, which are used in 
textual apparatus in BHS and elsewhere.

I have currently ordered the archaic and variant forms of Greek letters 
after the Greek diacritic letters, but am not happy about the order:

...
Digamma
Koppa
Koppanumeric
San
Sampi
Sigmalunate
Stigma
Sho
...
digamma
koppa
koppanumeric
san
sampi
sigmalunate
stigma
yot
sho
beta1
epsilonlunate
epsilonlunatereversed
theta1
kappa1
pi1
rho1
phi1
kai
...

Perhaps Gerry or David can suggest a better order for digamma, koppa,
etc. 
Ideally, I would like to list these letters in the order in which they 
would appear if taking their original place in the alphabet, if this is 
certain or agreed upon. I may yet decide to insert the variant forms of
the 
normal Greek letters -- beta1, epsilonlunate, etc. -- after their base 
forms, as I did for the Hebrew wide forms.

Regards, John

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