WEBSTER FONTS ============= Fonts for the Webster 1913 Dictionary. For version 0.50 Last edit May 5, 2001 ______________________________________ (This file contains some extended ASCII characters, and should be transmitted in binary mode) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file describes a modified font for use in visualizing the text of the 1913 "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary" (W1913), usable for the DOS operating system of IBM-compatible personal computers. The electronic version of that dictionary and this font were prepared by MICRA, Inc., Plainfield NJ, and are copyrighted (C) 1996 by MICRA, Inc. For details of permissions and restrictions on using these files, see the accompanying file "readme.web". The special characters used in the electronic version of the Webster 1913 are required for visualizing unusual characters used in the etymology and pronunciation fields of the dictionary, in a form comparable to the way they appear in the original. Since there are more than 256 characters used in that dictionary, not all can be represented by single-byte codes, and are instead represented by SGML-style "short-form" symbols. (rather than the "entity" format "&xx;" The ampersand is used frequently, and we prefer to leave the "<" as the only "escape" character) of the type ... surrounding the italic text, or by some other tag which also implies italic font. In the pronunciations, however, where italicized vowels are used among non-italic and other special characters to indicate pronunciation, the special codes and <) because of possible typographical differences in some fonts. The schwa is symbolized by $ > greater than 200 128 80 , using the following roman-letter equivalents for the Greek letters: Accents: (a) aspirants -- used in front of the letter modified, which is usually in *front* of words beginning in vowels. Of two types: ' (apostrophe) for the left-curving apirant (spiritus lenis) " (double quote) for the right-curving aspirant (spiritus asper) (when the aspirant is on a letter inside a word, it is placed in front of the letter it modifies.) (the left-curving aspirant is also used over rho, which is then usually transliterated "rh". The " in such cases is placed in front of the r (for rho) which it modifies). (b) normal accent (appearing as an acute accent in the original): ` (left open quote, ASCII ) -- placed after accented vowel (b) grave accent (appearing as an grave accent in the original): ~ (tilde, ASCII ) -- placed after accented vowel. This is rarely seen, as in to~ pa^n at "universe" or ta~ gewrgika` (at "Georgic"). (c) curving accent (appearing as a rounded circumflex): ^ (circumflex) -- placed after accented vowel (d) "iota" subscript (ogonek)-- a comma placed after the vowel having the subscript (e) diaeresis: the double dot found occasionally over the iota is represented by a colon immediately after the iota, as the i-diaeresis in Farisai:ko`s (at "pharisaic"). Where a letter has two accents, both are placed *after* the vowel Letters with an aspirant and an accent have the aspirant before the letter, and the accent after it. ------------------------ The capitalized Greek letters are represented by the capitalized versions of the letters shown here. ----------------------------------------- Greek letter transliteration ------------ --------------- alpha a beta b gamma g delta d epsilon e zeta z eta h theta q (th was used in some earier sections, but was changed due to potential confusion with the tau+eta combination, as in lyth`rios (at "lyterian") or poihth`s (at "maker") ) iota i kappa k lambda l mu m nu n xi x omicron o pi p rho r sigma s (end form not distinguished here from middle form within words, but when isolated, use