The intent was to show the full word and only indicate that it was originally shown in nomina sacra. Thus, if there is a way, it would be better to show the whole word and merely note that it was nomina sacra in some attribute. There are are sometimes more than one form of nomina sacra abbreviation for a given word, thus the ˚ symbol is merely indicating it was abbreviated with out indicating a particular form of nomina sacra. If that can't be done elegantly, then I would suggest simply stripping out the ˚ symbol entirely and just show the full word.

/Alan Bunning, D.Litt.
Executive Director
Center for New Testament Restoration
https://greekcntr.org/

On 3/13/2025 10:22 AM, David Haslam wrote:
Thanks, Alan, for the explanation.

This then prompts a suggestion as to the potential use of the OSIS *abbr* element for each instance. This would require that each type of */nomina sacrum/* would then need to be retained as the abbreviation, and then expanded using the XML attribute, e.g.

<abbr expansion="Θεοῦ">ΘΥ</abbr>

Please refer to the *OSIS User Manual*section 13.2

NB. I don't know whether the SWORD engine has any code to display the expansions! /The coders might enlighten us on this point. I have therefore cc: to *sword-devel* in this reply.
/

Best regards,

David

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On Thursday, March 13th, 2025 at 1:45 PM, Alan Bunning <greekc...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, that symbol is used to mark nomina sacra.

/Alan Bunning, D.Litt.
Executive Director
Center for New Testament Restoration
https://greekcntr.org/

On 3/13/2025 9:42 AM, Kovács Zoltán wrote:
Dear Alan,
I received the following emails. I haven't looked into them very much, but maybe you want to join the conversation.
Blessings, Zoltan

---------- Forwarded message ---------
Feladó: *David Haslam* <dfh...@protonmail.com>
Date: 2025. márc. 13., Cs, 14:37
Subject: Re: [modules] New Beta Module: StatResGNT
To: pierre amadio <amadio.pie...@gmail.com>
Cc: Kovács Zoltán <kov...@gmail.com>, <modu...@crosswire.org>


Hi Pierre,

That's a very plausible explanation!

Here are the relevant lines from my *word count*.

    Word Count
    ˚Θεέ 2
    ˚Θεοῦ 690
    ˚Θεόν 73
    ˚Θεός 68
    ˚Θεὸν 72
    ˚Θεὸς 239
    ˚Θεῷ 158
    ˚Κυρίου 231
    ˚Κυρίῳ 95
    ˚Κύριε 89
    ˚Κύριον 63
    ˚Κύριος 139
    ˚Κύριόν 1
    ˚Κύριός 10
    ˚Πνεύματι 59
    ˚Πνεύματος 79
    ˚Πνεύματός 5
    ˚Πνεῦμά 7
    ˚Πνεῦμα 99
    ˚Χριστέ 1
    ˚Χριστοῦ 252
    ˚Χριστόν 18
    ˚Χριστός 41
    ˚Χριστὸν 48
    ˚Χριστὸς 71
    ˚Χριστῷ 104
    ˚θεὸς 1
    ˚Ἰησοῦ 329
    ˚Ἰησοῦν 126
    ˚Ἰησοῦς 456


NB. If this is a technical means to mark the use of */nomina sacra/*, then it ought to be described in the conf file!
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David

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On Thursday, March 13th, 2025 at 1:11 PM, pierre amadio amadio.pie...@gmail.com wrote:

    Hi there.

    As far as I know, there is no such greek accent as a circular mark
    such as Ring Above (U+02DA).
    Looking at the source text, they seem to always appears next to
    words such as
    https://github.com/Center-for-New-Testament-Restoration/SR/blob/main/SR.txt
    ˚Ἰησοῦ ˚Χριστοῦ,
    ˚Πνεύματος
    ˚Κυρίου

    Could it be a way to mark the use of a nomina sacra in manuscripts ?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina_sacra

    On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 at 13:38, Kovács Zoltán kov...@gmail.com wrote:

        Thanks, David, I will look into it and get back to you.
        Best, Zoltan

        David Haslam dfh...@protonmail.com ezt írta (időpont: 2025.
        márc. 13., Cs, 13:33):

            Arising from the grapheme count, I have a further
            technical query.

            There are 3626 instances of U+02DA RING ABOVE.

            I am wondering whether these would be better being all
            replaced by U+030A COMBINING RING ABOVE, and if so,
            whether the mark should follow the Greek letter rather
            than precede it.

            NB. My knowledge of Ancient Greek accents rules is
            fairly limited.

            Q. What is the most suitable Unicode font for viewing a
            Greek NT text?
            Might it be sensible to include such an element in the
            .conf file?

            Best regards,

            David

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            On Thursday, March 13th, 2025 at 12:13 PM, David Haslam
            dfh...@protonmail.com wrote:

            Hi Kovács,

            Using BabelPad Tools, I have just done a grapheme count
            on the full Greek text with accents.
            i.e. After first stripping out the references from the
            diatheke output. See inside attached 7-Zip file.

            There are two left/right count mismatches that ought to
            be looked at.

            2018 ‘ 483
            2019 ’ 484
            201C “ 1,904
            201D ” 1,907

            cf. The counts of left/right parentheses were OK.

            0028 ( 62
            0029 ) 62

            Best regards,

            David

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            On Thursday, March 13th, 2025 at 11:59 AM, David Haslam
            dfh...@protonmail.com wrote:

            This module has the wrong Versification.

            It's a Greek NT and therefore LXX is simply the wrong
            choice!

            Please fix this ASAP.

            Dom, Please also fix any bug in your script that led to
            this mistake!

            Best regards,

            David

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            On Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 at 5:52 PM,
            dom...@crosswire.org dom...@crosswire.org wrote:

            This is to announce that we have just now uploaded
            StatResGNT
            in the CrossWire beta repository for testing purposes.

            If no raised concern nor a quality alert has been sent
            on the list,
            StatResGNT will be published in a week.

            This is an update.
            Language=Ancient Greek (to 1453)
            Version=1.3
            History_1.3=(2025-03-12) Update to newest release (last
            database change: 2024-07-16)
            
TextSource=https://github.com/Center-for-New-Testament-Restoration/SR/blob/master/SR.txt
            Versification=LXX

            Many thanks to Kovács_Zoltán for the hard work.

            yours

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