- From: Jim FitzSimons <cherry@neta.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:22:41 -0700
- To: www-amaya@w3.org
David J Woolley wrote: > > > This is a test of greek. > > http://www.neta.com/~cherry/greek.html > > There is no Greek in that HTML it is all in Roman letters but shown > with rather strange shapes. It is an example of the misuse of > fonts. > > Incidentally, even the text only browser Lynx will attempt to render > Greek as best it can if done properly. α displays as o acute > and ω as w, in code page 437. Yours just displays as: > > [1]TEX source > > a A Alpha b B Beta g G Gamma d D Delta e E Epsilon z Z Zeta h H Eta q > Q Theta > > i I Iota k K Kappa l L Lambda m M Mu n N Nu x X Xi o O Omicron p P Pi > > r P Rho s S Sigma t T Tau u Y Upsilon f F Phi c X Chi y Y Psi w W > Omega > _________________________________________________________________ > > This is the same thing done properly (showing the rendering would require > GIFs, but Lynx does a fair job of approximating this and IE4 gets it > perfect). Unfortunately NS 4.05 doesn't understand these entities: > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"><HTML> > > <p> > α Α Alpha > β Β Beta > γ Γ Gamma > δ Δ Delta > ε Ε Epsilon > ζ Ζ Zeta > η Η Eta > θ Θ Theta > > <p> > ι Ι Iota > κ Κ Kappa > λ Λ Lambda > μ Μ Mu > ν Ν Nu > ξ Ξ Xi > ο Ο Omicron > π Π Pi > > <p> > ρ Ρ Rho > σ Σ Sigma > τ Τ Tau > υ Υ Upsilon > φ Φ Phi > χ Χ Chi > ψ Ψ Psi > ω Ω Omega > > </HTML> > > -- > David Woolley - Office: David Woolley <djw@bts.co.uk> > BTS Home: <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> > Wallington TQ 2887 6421 > England 51 21' 44" N, 00 09' 01" W (WGS 84) David-- I can view it with IE4.0 Netscape4.5 Netscape3.04. I am running Windows 98. I will try your example. It may be much better. Regards, Jim Jim FitzSimons Mailto:cherry@neta.com
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