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qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:
>
> I don't know what those particular ones look like, but note that
> Classicists have been using "modern"-looking, i.e. sans serif,
Greek
> fonts for decades -- at Cambridge UP certainly, perhaps not at
Oxford
> UP. (Unless you're simply referring to the presence of the full
panoply
> of Classical accents.)
No, I meant the fonts, but I know next to nothing about fonts, so
thanks for letting me know that I am decades behind. This is not
surprising since many of my Greek texts were inherited from a great-
aunt who taught Greek at McGill in the distant past. A quick glance
at dates indicates that these books are the ones she had as a
student.
I haven't kept up but recently with all Greek texts available
online, I have been trying to brush up a little.
Have a look at this for some fun! Have you ever seen 'kai' written
like that? (towards the end of line 3 and line 5?)
http://fromoldbooks.org/oratiodominica/pages/orationis-p05-texture/
Now, what I really meant to say was that I have found a book called
Griechische Tachygraphie und Tironische Noten by Herbert Boge. Have
you ever seen it? It is in German, so I was going to check a few
details with you.
Suzanne