Ligatured letters

2024-03-20

Letters joined in ligature, technically those which share a single stroke (usually an upright) forming part of both characters, such as adjacent M and N, but more broadly any two joined or superimposed characters.

Panciera 1991 IV.4: a͡ba͡bc

<hi rend="ligature">ab</hi>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: a͡b
(Panciera)
<hi rend="ligature">abc</hi>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Default (Panciera) style: a͡b͡c
(Panciera)
<hi rend="ligature">ae</hi>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: a͡e
(IRT: 991)

<!-- example from IOSPE Byz. 18 -->
Εὐ<supplied reason="omitted">σ</supplied>εβί
<hi rend="ligature">ου</hi>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • Petrae style: Εὐ<σ>εβίο͡υ
ἀρχιερέω<hi rend="ligature" xml:id="hi1">ν</hi>
<hi rend="ligature" xml:id="hi2">ἐ</hi>κγόνου
<link target="hi1 hi2"/>

Transformation using the EpiDoc Reference stylesheets:

  • London style: ἀρχιερέων ἐκγόνου
(InsAph: 1.189)

Note that the ligature in the final example, which spans two words, does not yet render properly.

See also:

Other pages describing <hi>:

Responsibility for this section

  1. Scott Vanderbilt, author
  2. Gabriel Bodard, author
  3. Charlotte Tupman, author

EpiDoc version: 9.6

Date: 2024-03-20