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Posted by Andrew on 07/16/06 11:05
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 06:16:21 -0400, carolyn <cajunk@marenger.com>
wrote:
>Andrew wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:45:02 -0400, carolyn <cajunk@marenger.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Andrew wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have set a small sample of Ancient Greek that I was hoping an
>>>> obliging Linux user and an obliging Mac user could have a look at to
>>>> see if it renders ok. Screen capture would be great:
>>>
>>>Here is the screen capture. I hope it helps!
>>>
>>>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreekSample.png
>>>
>>>Carolyn
>>
>> Hi Carolyn,
>>
>> Thanks very much for that! Your browser actually broke the text, so I
>> have a little more work to do! Looks like it spat the dummy with every
>> single accent and breathing mark and placed a box instead.
>>
>> "Bitstream Vera Sans" has been suggested to me so I have added this in
>> the hope that the Linux browsers will have a bit more success :-)
>>
>> If you have the time, and I know I am pushing it a little here, can
>> you have one more look for me with the new font added?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your trouble,
>>
>> Andrew.
>
>I do have the time, and I will take it a step further. As Toby stated, it
>seems to be a konqueror issue, not a linux issue. Firefox, Epophany, and
>Opera all seem to work just fine. My two text browsers choke on it too,
>but that is probably a matter of what fonts are available to those
>browsers.
>
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Konqueror.png
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Firefox.png
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Epiphany.png
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Opera.png
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Lynx.png
>http://www.marenger.com/provinggrounds/ancientGreek-Links.png
>
>Good luck,
>
>Carolyn
Hi Carolyn,
Thanks again for this. I will admit to a moment of anguish when I saw
the initial Konqueror screen capture :-) Opera has also mangled the
letter mu for some reason, and distorted the letter pi.
But basically it looks as if I can type Ancient Greek, place it on
the web and be happy that it is reaching as many people as care to
look for it. (Mac, Linux and Windows).
There are many people doing this at the moment but I am hoping to
place a full transcription of Jebb's Oidipos (Oedipus) the King
online. It is out of copyright so no legal probs and this would be a
tremendous resource. 1,500 lines though and I type Greek very slowly
:-)
Thanks for your help in this early part of my plan!!
Andrew.
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