A Note About the Presentation of
empAθos Words and Spellings
The empAθos
Greco-Roman Alphabet consists of over forty individual characters.
This creates dificulties when trying to present empAθos
words on a web site.
Where English makes the use of capital letters to begin sentences and
proper names, empAθos
language does not. Rather, letters that English designates as capital
and lowercase, in empAθos
have entirely different sounds from each other, and are therefore, entirely
different characters with no relationship to each other. Also, are added
umlauts, accents, and the further addition of letters from the Greek Alphabet.
An example that may be found on every page of our web site is in our
name, "empAθos".
Properly, this spelled "e" - "m" - "p" - capital "A" - theta - "o" - "s". The capital "A" has an "ah" sound as in "father", and the theta has a soft "th" sound as in "math".
We have employed different methods of presenting empAθos
words:
The first employed the use of the <Symbol.ttf> font that is common
to most Windows based computer systems which produced this:
empAqos
Which looks like this in browsers that cannot handle the <Symbol.ttf>
font:
empAqos
Our next effort was to employ the use of a graphic to represent the
empAθos letter which looks like this:
empA os
Which looks like this in browsers that can't handle alignments properly:
empAos
The latest W3C protocols employing ISO 9573-13 extended characters, as in the following:
empAθos
Which looks like this in some browsers:
empAθos
This last example is largely a problem of older browsers.
And of course, this says nothing of the problems raised by text only
browsers, and readers for visually inpaired visitors to our web site.
The problem is that we cannot program for every different type of browser
and are forced to do the best that we can. There are no protocols
for any of this in place that will answer our dilemma. We can't please everyone.
As we are hopeful of a uniform standard we will rely the ISO 9573-13 extended character set as W3C recommends.
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