[texhax] GFS Porson polytonic keymap?
Yannis Haralambous
yannis.haralambous at telecom-bretagne.eu
Thu May 7 09:40:31 CEST 2009
Le 7 mai 09 à 03:21, Pierre MacKay a écrit :
> A true Porson oughtn't to produce a tilde in any case. The tilde is a
> Didot form of
> perispomene, and one of the distinguishing marks of Porson is the
> simple
> rounded
> cap for perispomene (based on Porson's own handwriting.)
True, *but* nevertheless there is a tilde in the original Monotype
design of Porson (for me the only authentic Porson). As you can see on
the atatched screenshot, in the sixth box of the first row there is a
lovely eta with tilde (whose PostScript name is etatildealt). Of
course all combinations with breathings are missing, so we can
consider as "an exception confirming the rule". Probably some
important Monotype client asked for it, and so they added it to the
glyph set.
Just as they added also the hideous "accented capitals" for monotonic
Greek which would make poor old Porson turn around in his grave...
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