I'm not sure of the relationships between CSS and browser preferences, but changing the font preferences for how a web page is displayed is a pretty straightforward thing. inverted breves instead of tildes when I read this website?) Wrt to your correction, as your post mostly explained how I can produce (not display) Greek with whatever appearance I like, a follow-up explaining how I can get Greek to be displayed how I like as I read it would be nice. If you are particular about making sure people see a font with a circumflex rather than tilde on your website, you can define which font is displayed using CSS. If you have access to a computer and it does that, you highlight a string of characters with circumflexes / tilde and hover up and down the list of fonts till you find one you like. On my friends computer, in Word, moving the mouse pointer down the list of fonts in the home tab changes the text to those fonts. The Porson font that you mentioned is to be found in that list at 35. (Toggle: View sample - Hide sample.) According to that list Palatino displays a tilde, and Times a circumflex, etc. The TLG site provides hyperlinks to samples of how Greek will be displayed using various fonts. No offense intended, but I've emmended your question, and will answer what I have reformulated. I don't think you're asking the right question. This seemed convincing to me when I heard it a few months back and since then I've written circumflexes (while typing with tildes - we can agree it's not a massive problem).Īnyone able to suggest a font or other type-face in which one can t̶y̶p̶e̶ Greek using the 'circumflex' symbol for a circumflex accent rather than the tilde? I remain surprised that more such fonts are not out there and that the majority of online Greek has tildes representing circumflexes.Īs I understand, the argument for the circumflex (symbol) is that it represents the pitch variation likely to have been present in the accent (up then down) - this is why the acute is '/' - while the tilde does not (implying perhaps 'up then down then back up'?). As we might expect, this font nicely reproduces the circumflex symbol for the accent.
It also appears that there exists a 'Porson Greek' font, based on his hand. Some online examples: (Porson's Hecuba) contrast, Hermann (Porson's contemporary). His editions are the oldest I can find them in - not that I've looked that closely - and he was a known reformer of Greek calligraphy. It may be that the use of the circumflex symbol for the accent was instituted, or at least popularized, by Porson. It looks clumsy & ugly in our posts, yes, but this is a pretty widespread practice nowadays and looks fine in print. Really? Who is doing that? Anyway, Unicode as the Latin "Combining Circumflex Accent", if you want to make an alpha with the Latin circumflex: α̂. It's one thing to think of the 'h' sound, which occurs before the vowel phonetically, but the accent? Which occurs on the vowel? And to input them at the same time? Might seem like I'm just being difficult but it's hard to imagine anyone being really comfortable typing like that. one of the packages above expects you to decide on the breathing+diacritic combination desired before you input a word-initial vowel. But it's so much easier and better than actually typing in Word that I've never managed to wean myself off it.Į.g. And there's no letter input for digamma, yod, koppa perhaps most grievous, no option to input lunate sigmas. Typing diacritics is cumbersome and painful in any package I am currently aware for Word (including the two listed above).īesides that my requests for improvement would be only small - for example, even the website I linked doesn't seem to let you type macrons, which I would like to do (at the same time as accents and breathings). What I would really like is something like this: ,īut in Word (as the website has the obvious vice of not saving your work).
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