[Biblical-languages] Consonantal iota
Peter Kirk
peterkirk at qaya.org
Sun Sep 7 15:20:02 EDT 2003
On 13/08/2003 06:22, biblang at ntresources.com wrote:
>How is consonantal iota to be represented in Unicode? There is no character
>for it in the Greek Extended range. (For samples, see Mounce, Basics of
>Biblical Greek, 2d ed., 179; 1st ed., 165; or Smyth's Grammar, sect. 109.)
>Mounce uses a pointed caret under the iota (much like 032D), whereas Smyth
>uses a rounded mark (like 032F). (Smyth uses the terminology "semivowel,"
>but I assume they are equivalent terms?)
>
>Two related questions:
>
>Are we to use 032D or 032F combined with iota (03B9) for such marks? (And if
>so, which?)
>
>In font design, are these two characters (032D, 032F) to be designed with a
>negative left sidebearing so they overstrike the preceding character?
>(Gentium apparently does this?) Or are they to be set with normal
>sidebearings and the application left to superimpose them appropriately?
>
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>Rodney J. Decker, Th.D., Assoc. Professor/NT
>Baptist Bible Seminary, Clarks Summit, PA, USA
>URL: www.NTResources.com
>PURL: purl.oclc.org/NT_Resources/
>Email: <rdecker> at <NTResources.com>
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For more on this issue: see
http://www.tlg.uci.edu/~opoudjis/unicode/yot.html. Note that one
recommendation is to use iota with U+032F Combining Inverted Breve Below.
--
Peter Kirk
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peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
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