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In article <1992Jul24.024950.4731@leland.Stanford.EDU>, alderson@elaine46.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) writes:
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|>In article <1992Jul23.220105.13855@sol.UVic.CA>, zapantis@uvphys (Nik Zapantis) writes:
|>>A number of recent requests for accented Greek tex, has prompted me to post
|>>this.  Please be aware that Modern Greek now uses a single accent . This
|>>accent has now replaced all previous accents and spirits(sp?). All modern
|>>Greek print (papers,official Docs, etc) now uses this 'monotonic' system.
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|>Doesn't the accent in question look like the old acute?  In which case a Greek
|>font which could handle all the accents could easily represent the reformed
|>spelling.

I do not have a reference in front of me, but I believe the single accent has no slant. It looks like
a single quote, just a short vertical line. Anyway, the point I was trying to make is that one can now get away with just the default Greek font, or the Symbol font , and just use the existing single quote or prime, to typeset Greek text. 

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|>>I do not know if Ancient Greek typesetting still uses the old 'multitonic'
|>>system.
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|>Ancient Greek typesetting will always use the system of accents devised by the
|>Alexandrinian grammarians, because not to do so would cripple the ability of
|>new scholars to deal with older editions texts, as well as losing information
|>of importance to linguists.

quite correct, although this may not be the case for Greek school texts.

|>-- 
|>Rich Alderson   'I wish life was not so short,' he thought.  'Languages take
|>                such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
|>                                                        --J. R. R. Tolkien,
|>alderson@leland.stanford.edu                              _The Lost Road_
|>

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