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Originally Posted by Jellby
That's what I wouldn't do  It's mixing Greek alpha and Latin a, which might look different in some fonts (kind of assuming 1 and l look the same, as they used to do in most typewriters).
If you go on that road, maybe you want to use N instead of Nu, K instead of Kappa and H instead of Eta, and ’A instead of Ά (and even use a mirrored L for Gamma if you can rely on CSS3 or SVG). If you absolutely want Ά to look like Á, I'd embed a modified font, where you have replaced that glyph, but the underlying text should have "Alpha with tonos", and not "A with acute accent".
But I'm a nitpicker  |
Thanks, Jellby and Freeshadow. I hope we can agree to disagree here. My original desire was to convey the original ancient Greek word, or as close as I could get it. But who am I to argue with Victor Hugo, or his printers? What I intend to do matches pretty closely the usage in the Oxford Classics and the Signet Classics edition.