The Etymological Dictionary of Greek has arrived with a font bug

Veli Voipio

The Etymological Dictionary of Greek has arrived

https://www.logos.com/product/55648/etymological-dictionary-of-greek

It has some rectangles instead of glyphs, like ⮘PG?(V)⮚

What I could find Unicode characters (U+2B98) and (U+2B9A). It is some sort of arrow.

Anybody who has the print version could check what kind of character is intended?

Not a big deal, but probably easy to fix

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Lee

Not sure what you mean. Screenshot?

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023867#Comment_1023867

Here is a screenshot example

You can see a rectangle in the end of the first line and a similar rectangle on the same line before the abbreviation IE.

Those squares probably indicate some sort of parenthesis, perhaps arrow-like.

(I have my own Greek font in the dictionary, please don't worry about that.)

Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023869#Comment_1023869

ἔρχομαɩ [v.] ‘to come’, also ‘to go, travel’ (Il.). IE *h₁erg^h-, *h₁er- ‘move, go’

It's some kind of Wingdings magic. Even so, if you look closely, it's not quite the same. Hence, it's a non-standard glyph.

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023871#Comment_1023871

it's a non-standard glyph.

Ok, thanks a lot Lee, it is something I was expecting.

For me it does not look visually the best, I think some other parenthesis/bracket type would be visually clearer.

Manuel Maria

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023875#Comment_1023875

it's a non-standard glyph.

Ok, thanks a lot Lee, it is something I was expecting.

For me it does not look visually the best, I think some other parenthesis/bracket type would be visually clearer.

That's true. Is there any way to change the font of this resource so it looks as expected?

Thanks

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023875#Comment_1023875

it's a non-standard glyph.

Ok, thanks a lot Lee, it is something I was expecting.

For me it does not look visually the best, I think some other parenthesis/bracket type would be visually clearer.

I noticed the same thing this morning when I was using it. I also agree with you that a different bracket would be better.

Lee

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023896#Comment_1023896

A creative solution would have to be found. See the list of Symbols on p. xlviii

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

I've filed a bug report for this.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1023961#Comment_1023961

I've filed a bug report for this.

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1024034#Comment_1024034

Thanks Bradley!

It looks like I caused you work on Saturday [:$]

Anyway, I enjoy the dictionary, it seems to work as expected.

I appreciate all the work Logos team has done in 2018, wishing a happy new year 2019!

DAL

I assume this got fixed already in 2025? I just purchased it for $111 and change close enough to the prepub price years ago.

Veli Voipio

Yes, it has been fixed, see my comment in Dec 2018

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1370321#Comment_1370321

Thanks! I checked some of the original samples you posted and it appears to have been fixed. Great tool, but not as informative as I thought it would be. Still it’s great to have!

DMB

A lot more than the hebrew one.