[texhax] GFS Porson polytonic keymap?

[Pierre MacKay]

Peter King wrote:

>On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:09:09PM +0200, Erik Norvelle wrote:
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>>It may be that the codes for GFS Porson are like those for the Teubner 
>>package, which is what I used prior to switching to Unicode Porson.
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>>The manual for Teubner is here: 
>>http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/teubner/teubner-doc.pdf
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>The manual suggests a LaTeX macro for entering rough/smooth breathing on
>the circumflex. It doesn't seem to work in GFS Porson -- there isn't any
>macro defined in porson.fd or porson.sty to do the work that's done in
>Teubner.
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A true Porson oughtn't to produce a tilde in any case.  The tilde is a 
Didot form of
perispomene, and one of the distinguishing marks of Porson is the simple 
rounded
cap for perispomene (based on Porson's own handwriting.)

Post-positive sequences for polytonic Greek are far from dead.  Look at 
Kryukov's
Thessalonica for Open Office.  (disclosure --- the Ibycus sequencing is 
my contribution.)
I continue to use sequences (which just happen to fit into 7-bit ASCII) 
because my aging
memory can't keep up with the all the ALT CTL FUNC key chordal fingering 
you need for
getting eight bits out of a normal keyboard.

Pierre MacKay