Introduction to Online Publications

To see a list of our online book collection, click here.

The selections of books and essays presented here are in the Unicode font standard. In order to read the Greek letters and special characters that they contain, you need a web browser that interprets Unicode fonts, your system software needs to be capable of supporting them, and you need to have Unicode fonts on your system (the default Unicode font for these publications is Helvetica). All versions of Windows software since Windows 2000 have that capability, and any version of Firefox, Mozilla, or Internet Explorer since that date will display the text properly. For Mac users, MacOS X  since version 10.2 and any recent version of Safari, Firefox, Camino, or Opera will work. Set your browser to display Unicode and/or UTF-8, without combining diacritics, if that is an option. On a Windows system, you may have to restart your computer for such a setting change in your browser to take effect. Our texts do not currently use combining diacritics, since they don't display as well as precombined diacritics on common software. The result is that some special characters do not appear in the correct font style (they are roman instead of italic) and some require subsitution (for instance, we use ii or y for the letter i with a circumflex beneath) or don't exist  (for instance, the letter a with a macron and an acute accent). We apologize for these problems which we expect to correct as soon as the rendering of combining diacritics improves.

For large sections of any of these works, there may be a delay of up to a minute before they appear in your browser, depending on the system load and the size of the piece. The source files are encoded in TEI XML and are being converted for online presentation on the fly. We will cure this problem in the near future by outputting the text in chunks, but in the meantime, a little patience at first will give you quick access to large sections of text.