>Joe Reid wrote: >> My Eudora produced a tall rectangle for the circumflexed letters >> that Bill quoted. >> >> The Shorter Oxford dictionary confirms the diaerisis (also >> dierisis) comes from Greek. > >I hope those aren't the spellings they give. <g> > >It's di�resis or dieresis. (The ae ligature on the first of those two may >or may not display correctly on your Mac, Joe.) > >IBM must have a penchant for obscurantism, as I haven't found tremma used >other than in their literature (and in some 18th century Italian poetry). >Even the largest of my dictionaries doesn't include it. > >Bill Potts, CMS >San Jose, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] I don't how to get my computer to produce an ae ligature. Joe
