Re:Greek daily Bible question
I’ve had a couple of comments recently about the Re:Greek Scripture of the Day in my sidebar. (Thanks John and Sue.) As far as I can see it looks perfectly fine typographically in my sidebar, but others are reporting problems with the look of the font. Could anyone who sees problems let me know in a comment on this post?
The problem I am aware of is the content. Today’s passage claims to be John 13:21 – 14:10, but is, as as far as I can see, a weirdly garbled version of Matt 3:1 ff with most word forms reverting to the nominative singular for nouns and the 1st person present for verbs. This also happens on their front page, so it’s not just my site.
I am trying to report the problem to the Re:Greek site, but am waiting for permission to join their collaboration group. If it doesn’t get sorted soon, I shall be obliged to take it down until the problem is fixed.
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
The heading has been John 13:21 - 14:10 since Zubhart switched over to Re:Greek. I also noticed the change in nouns and verbs. In fact last night I listened to Matthew 2:1ff and wondered why they weren’t reading it properly. But obviously it wasn’t them. I hope that you can get through to the people over there and alert them to these problems.
I’m also curious, Wordpress doesn’t accept the Re:Greek widget but I notice that you have a Wordpress themed blog. Are you able to post it because you own the domain? Or did you have to purchase something from Wordpress in order to get it to function? If so, what?
Thanks!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Hi, NIck. Thanks for the comments. Unless they fix the sidebar feed you probably won’t want it. But I’ll have a go at answering your question. I don’t know how different Wordpress.com blogs are from using Wordpress on your own server. But they way I did this was add a blank text widget, and copy the Re:Greek JavaScript code into it and change the title of the widget.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:04 am
The typographic problem may be with certain browsers. Internet Explorer 6 had problems displaying polytonic Greek, a problem fixed in IE 7 as well as in Firefox. But the main requirement for a good reading experience is probably to have the font Palatino Linotype installed, as the widget seems to generate text in this font. This font is installed by default in Windows 2000 and XP, but maybe not in other systems.