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Re: greek circumflex

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From: dhosek
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:53
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In article <1992Aug28.213404.28565@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:
> I'm using Levy's greek fonts and at the same time am learning classical
> Greek.  My text, by Harvard Univ Press, uses a rounded '^' for a circumflex,
> but Levy uses a '~'.  Which is more common in classical greek texts?

They're interchangable and depend primarily on the font used. My
text from Fordham U uses ~. I have other books which use ^. I
wouldn't worry about it (you might as well worry about the shapes
of rho and kappa).

-dh
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