Re: question about adobe Cyrillic fonts.

[Yannis Haralambous <yannnis@fluxus-virus.com>]

On 6/09/99 at 10:51, vvv@vvv.vsu.ru (Vladimir Volovich) wrote:

> 
> BTW, what is a triangle? i did not find a glyph with such name in
> "Greek" font.
> 
>   Best regards, -- Vladimir.
> 
> 

They probably call it "tonos" or "accent" or "acute". IN the very early days of
Greek monotonic system some people wanted to darw the accent as a triangle to
show even more the difference with the previous polytonic system. Later on the
Government declared the acute accent as the official glyph of the monotonic accent.

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