Re: Greek Astrology

From: Kalvesmaki, Joel <KalvesmakiJ_at_doaks.org>

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 14:12:35 +0000

> Byzantine authors had a great penchant for ligatures. Although I do not
have expertise in Greek astrology, I do have some competence in
> other
aspects of Byzantine literature (including some familiarity with
manuscripts and inscriptions). Based on that experience, I feel I can
> safely say that any attempt to encode the four ligatures on the grounds
discussed here would be an invitation to encode a host of other
> Byzantine Greek ligatures (for example, the standard cruciform
invocative monograms: V. Laurent, La collection Orghidian [Paris, 1952],
 pl. > lxx).

> A formal proposal for these four ligatures would be premature.
One should first understand the entire culture of Byzantine ligation,
then
> determine what parts of that culture should be encoded, and which
not.
Thanks for this info. What I found at Unicode concerns Latin ligatures:http://www.unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html

Sincerely,
--C. E. Whiteheadcewcathar_at_hotmail.com

> Sincerely,

> jk

--
Joel Kalvesmaki
Editor in Byzantine Studies
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW