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Author: Sean Crist
Email: kurisuto at panix dot com
Date: 2006-03-31 07:44:25
Subject: Re: Error report: Torp, page b0298, entry 8
This is a margin comment on: Torp, page b0298, entry 8
> gr. (ion.) [nei=os]: is the equals sign a garbled digamma? Then perhaps not, in Ionic...
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> /Benct
Almost none of the texts are entirely finished. In Torp, every Greek word is presently enclosed in square brackets and is rendered according to a set of conventions for representing Greek and its diacritics in ASCII. Square brackets don't otherwise occur in the text as bare characters, so they always indicate Greek. This was a hack to make the typing easier back when I was doing the hand corrections on Torp.
The equals sign means that the preceding character should have a circumflex accent above it.
One of the many things on my very long to-do list is to write a script to convert the ASCII representations of the Greek words in Torp to the XML entities which correspond to specific Unicode characters. If I get the grant I applied for, I can spend all of next year taking care of things like this. If I don't get the grant, my work on the project is probably going to have to come to an unhappy end, with many things left forever uncompleted.
--Sean
Error report: Torp, page b0298, entry 8