| | Rusten, Review of Palatino Unicode (BMCR) |
 | | But when it came to polytonic Greek, Unicode made an initial blunder.[4] It declined to assign Unicode slots to the character+accent combinations of polytonic Greek, opting instead for a single set of "combining" diacritics to accompany every vowele. |
 | | The decision to design separate styles beyond the Roman one is perhaps not as important to Hellenists, who seldom use anything but plain upright text. |
 | | But the italic version of the new Palatino Greek, whose letters are more uniform in slope, makes all the characters somewhat lighter, and gives just the right slope for each, and might actually be preferred by some Greek scholars for general use over the Roman (just as many now prefer the sloping Porson). |
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