Re: doc: Spelling of LAMBDA in digraph table

2023-03-23 Fir de Conversatie Max Mahlke
> I now have this:
> 
> Λ L*  039B0923GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA (aka LAMBDA)
> λ l*  03BB0955GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA (aka LAMBDA)
> 
> No need to send a PR if this is OK.

Looks good to me! Bedankt.

On 22 Mar 22:02, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > > Bram:
> > > I think adding "aka LAMBDA" is apprpriate.
> > 
> > I agree. I will open a PR.
> 
> I now have this:
> 
> Λ L*  039B0923GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA (aka LAMBDA)
> λ l*  03BB0955GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA (aka LAMBDA)
> 
> No need to send a PR if this is OK.
> 
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Re: doc: Spelling of LAMBDA in digraph table

2023-03-22 Fir de Conversatie Max Mahlke
> Tony:
> However the official, unchangeable names as shown in the
> "Greek and Coptic" Unicode reference file
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf are GREEK CAPITAL LETTER
> LAMDA and GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA respectively. The small letter, but
> not the capital, has under its official name there the commentary "=
> lambda".

Thank you for the background information Tony. Indeed, as Dominique
points out, it seems that the Greek National Body preferred the LAMDA
spelling as it is closer to the Greek spelling ΛΑΜΔΑ. The B has no place
in this word. However, LAMBDA is the official English spelling and used
everywhere outside the Unicode reference as far as I can tell.

Since the Unicode reference added the English spelling as a comment, the
vim documentation could do so as well in my opinion.

> Bram:
> I think adding "aka LAMBDA" is apprpriate.

I agree. I will open a PR.

Cheers
Max

On 22 Mar 17:51, Dominique Pellé wrote:
> Bram Moolenaar  wrote:
> 
> > Max Mahlke wrote:
> >
> > > in runtime/doc/digraph.txt, the greek letter lambda is spelt LAMDA. I
> > > was looking for it under the accepted spelling LAMBDA, though I am aware
> > > that some people prefer the LAMDA spelling. I see that the vim source
> > > makes frequent use of both spellings.
> >
> > The unicode consortium uses LAMDA.  It does mention "lambda" below
> > "GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA".  I have no clue where the difference comes
> > from.
> 
> Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda gives an explanation:
> 
> > Lambda (/ˈlæmdə/;[1] uppercase Λ, lowercase λ; Greek: λάμ(β)δα, lám(b)da)
> > ...snip...
> > Unicode uses the (Modern Greek-based) spelling "lamda" in
> > character names, instead of "lambda", due to "the pre-existing
> > names in ISO 8859-7, as well as preferences expressed by
> > the Greek National Body".

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doc: Spelling of LAMBDA in digraph table

2023-03-21 Fir de Conversatie Max Mahlke
Dear all,

in runtime/doc/digraph.txt, the greek letter lambda is spelt LAMDA. I
was looking for it under the accepted spelling LAMBDA, though I am aware
that some people prefer the LAMDA spelling. I see that the vim source
makes frequent use of both spellings.

I would therefore suggest changing

runtime/doc/digraph.txt
550:Λ   L*  039B0923GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA
581:λ   l*  03BB0955GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA

to 

runtime/doc/digraph.txt
550:Λ   L*  039B0923GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA/LAMBDA
581:λ   l*  03BB0955GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA/LAMBDA

I would gladly submit a PR for this change on GitHub.

Apologies if this has been discussed before, I have not found any
mention in the mailing list archives or on the GitHub repository.

Kind regards
Max Mahlke

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