User:Deaurider

These notes are specific to Deaurider projects.

Proofing Polytonic Greek

If the Project Manager has enabled the polytonic greek character suite, greek characters are to be proofed as they appear in the image. You can insert individual characters using the character pickers. The image below shows how the character suite is broken into multiple pickers - in this case the alpha picker has been selected.

if preferred you can switch to a Greek Keyboard layout. Your operating system may also have an on screen keyboard option (usually under Accessibility).

It is recommended that you set your browser font default for Greek to DP Sans Mono.

Knowing the greek alphabet will help you find your way round the picker.

alpha

beta

gamma

delta

epsilon

zeta

eta

theta

iota

kappa

lambda

mu

nu

xi

omicron

pi

rho

sigma

tau

upsilon

phi

chi

psi

omega

Α

Β

Γ

Δ

Ε

Ζ

Η

Θ

Ι

Κ

Λ

Μ

Ν

Ξ

Ο

Π

Ρ

Σ

Τ

Υ

Φ

Χ

Ψ

Ω

α

β

γ

δ

ε

ζ

η

θ

ι

κ

λ

μ

ν

ξ

ο

π

ρ

σ ς

τ

υ

φ

χ

ψ

ω

N.B. The [Greek: ] tag on the toolbar is used only when transliterating. It is not required when entering greek characters directly.

Wordcheck

Wordcheck is especially useful for ancient greek. For one, the dictionary is surprisingly accurate so any words that wordcheck does not recognise deserve a second look. In addition, if a "greek" word is highlighted but cannot be suggested for the GWL, this suggests it has latin characters mixed with the greek, and needs to be fixed.

BEWARE: Wordcheck will ignore greek words if the language is not activated.

If the project language is "with greek", the dictionary will be activated for all pages. If the project is not a "with greek" project, you will need to add ancient greek to the language options for the page you are working on.

Diacritical Marks

Diacritics are anything attached to the “main” letter, like an accent. Greek has four basic types:

Example	Name	Where found
	breathing mark	initial vowel or diphthong, and most ρ (rho).
	dieresis	rare: υ (upsilon) or ι (iota) following another vowel
	iota subscript	only with α (alpha), η (eta), ω (omega)
	accent	any vowel or diphthong

A single vowel can carry as many as three diacritics: breathing mark and accent and iota subscript, like this one:--

Most diacritic combinations are avilable from the picker - you just have to find the one that matches the image. Or you can use the appropriate key combination if using the greek keyboard.

Circumflex Accent

If you are using the DP Sans Mono font, the circumflex accent in the picker will look like a tilde ῦ. The text you are proofing may use a different style - ȗ û - but we proof them all the same way.

Breathing marks

Vowels or diphthongs at the beginning of a word may be pronounced with an 'h' sound (aspirated). As there is no letter in the greek to represent our 'h' sound, aspiration, or lack of, is indicated by a breathing mark, curling to the right (aspirated) or left (not aspirated), so:--

ἁ = “rough breathing” (ha)

ἀ = “smooth breathing“ (a)

If the text you are proofing includes diacritics, any word starting with a vowel should have a breathing mark. If starting with a diphthong, it will be on the second vowel.

This means that if you see only one diacritic, it will be a breathing mark, not an accent. If there is no breathing mark, you should leave a note [**breathing?] after the word.

NB. An 'apostrophe' may appear over a vowel mid word if two words are truncated and combined. Proof the vowel as if it had a breathing mark.

Breathing Marks on Capital Letters

If a word begins with a capitalized vowel, the breathing mark may be printed to the left of the letter, rather than above it, like this Ἀ. Don't confuse this with an apostrophe. The capital with its breathing mark is available from the picker.

Breathing on Rho

A word beginning with rho always has rough breathing ῥ. Double rho in the middle of a word always has rough breathing on the second, like this ρῥ or ῤῥ. The treatment of double rho is often inconsistent so leave a note if in doubt, or ask in the project forum.

Punctuation

DP does not have a specific greek character for the raised dot. Proof this as the mid dot (•). It can be found in the ¶ picker, or you can enter it from the keyboard with alt+0183. An apostrophe at the end of a word is normally just that - it indicates a contraction.

Stigma

Terminal sigma ς is (notionally) used only at the end of a word. A similar character stigma ϛ, a ligature of sigma & tau, may appear elsewhere in a word and sometimes as a number (6). If you think you've found one please proof as terminal sigma but leave a note [**stigma?] after the word in which it appears.  

Variant Letter Forms

Here are some common variant forms. Each one is shown between alphas so you can see where the letter goes in relation to the overall line:

Image	name	picker	Image	name	picker
	beta	β		pi	π
	gamma	γ		rho	ρ
	theta	θ		tau	τ
	kappa	κ		Sigma*	Ϲ

* This is the lunate form of sigma, commonly found as a capital letter in inscriptions.

Ligatures

In older books, printed Greek used a lot of ligatures. These are groups of letters joined together or abbreviated, rather than being written separately. We proof these in their expanded form as in the examples below.

ου

καὶ

-ος

-ρο-

For the most part ligatures will need careful evaluation, so if they are not predefined in the project comments, please seek advice in the project discussion.