Re: [latina] ligatures

["Garcia, Rafael" <garcia WPI EDU>]

It's purely an aesthetic issue in latin, there is not difference with regards to pronunciation or grammar,
but especially when capitals are involved ligatures look cool. Thus you are as qualified to offer an opinion as
anyone else.

The only cases where it matters that you don't ligature is when there is a diaresis or macron over one
of the letters. Thus aër ( gen. aër is) means air; but aes =æs (æris) means copper/brass.  Sometimes people
are sloppy or assume the reader understands the difference, e.g.  between air and brass/copper.

Some people realy care about indicating the long vowels since it does make a difference to some sentences: but
there is no universal standard for this, the long a being indicated by ā, â, ä, or á by different authors at different times.
Rafael 
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From: Thomas Thurman [tthurman gnome org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:25 PM
To: Garcia, Rafael
Cc: gnome-latin-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [latina] ligatures

Ysgrifennodd Garcia, Rafael:
> So I guess that we need to decide how we want it displayed. I'm OK
> with converting to ligatures, if you guys want to do it.

I don't have enough knowledge to have an informed opinion.  I can,
however, write a script to convert all "ae" and "oe" to ligatures when
people send me the .po files, if that's what we decide we want.

Thomas

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