Re: Cover errors and Greek

That cover also uses a roman p instead of rho in the word γάρ. The font
used for the Greek seems to be Times New Roman dropped into a different
roman font that doesn't have a Greek set, and actually in this font there
is quite a strong resemblance between sigma and omicron, since both are
vertically shaded and in fact the designer has made the sigma by adding a
bit to omicron. Where the probsocis of sigma abuts on an adjacent
projection on upsilon, it's easy to miss if your knowledge of Greek is
slight.

From my experience in publishing, even when the text of a book is carefully
proofread by a competent person (which is quite rare these days) the cover
is never properly checked, just given a cursory glance by an in-house sub.
I've seen some ghastly errors on covers go through.

A personal note: I think the Greek set in Times New Roman is hideous, and
am sad to see it used so often by default. I designed my own Greek font
Orthos to fit into the shallow line height of Times New Roman so that it
can be used instead. Free download at
https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hancock.dircon.co.uk%2F&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cbfa4ac28f1d74050efbb08d67f0579d2%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C636836058831651410&sdata=B0dLV4mPlObtFqNt5e7z%2BnYlotmT0Ffyf2DkJiYev%2Fk%3D&reserved=0

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