Template talk:Polytonic

message: I've discovered quite by chance, that this template is better than Template:Unicode at representing some accented characters used in English, and I've therefore been using it for that purpose. See also Template talk:Unicode.
The following is a list of places I've used it in this way, all of which ought ideally to be converted to Template:Unicode when the latter has been upgraded to be more useful:       rossb 06:33, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another (temporary) use for this template 

message: Hi,
The name of the French template has been changed. It is now :fr:Modèle:Grec ancien. Please, correct the interwiki. Thank you. User:Bibi Saint-Pol 16:14, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And it's still this way now ... Please, someone, do something ... -- marilyn.hanson 15:07, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. I would advise to place  on the talk page in the future, so other administrators are aware of the request as well. Cheers, —Ruud 15:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fr: changed 

message: I've just installed Internet Explorer 7, and it seems to overcome the problems completely as far as I can see. --rossb 08:42, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To be honest, this is what I also expected to happen, this is why I didn't push my opinion [that the workaround needs to be improved] thru more agressively despite the relative lack of interest from the admins. God save Bill Gates and IE7! :P --Adolar von Csobánka (Talk) 19:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IE7 is the answer? 

message: Apparently, the template does not work any more since Sept 2006. The class="polytonic" tag, does not work either, in spite of the fact that the MediaWiki:Common.css file still contains:
 .polytonic {
        font-family: Athena, Gentium, "Palatino Linotype", "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Code2000; 
        font-family /**/:inherit;
This is a pity because on the Mac (Safari) the breathings are can hardly be seen.
It appears this is a Wikimedia bug.  Andreas  (T) 15:16, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  
It dosn't work any more
 

message: the "polytonic" class in the css has been duplicated as the :lang(grc) pseudoclass, i.e. you should now get precisely the same rendering if you use . I'm transcluding  to this template for this reason. If this works alright, the "polytonic" class may be deleted from common.css as redundant (and  may be subst:ed by a bot). dab (𒁳) 11:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In MSIE this template is not functional anymore because :lang(grc) pseudoclass doesn't work. This is not a problem in Vista/MSIE7 only because default font is new Arial version 5.00 which already has extended Greek characters, but XP/MSIE6 (with older Arial) needs "polytonic" class in this template in order to select one of such fonts. --93.138.48.136 (talk) 05:43, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: css change

message: At Talk:Eidos#Unicode, a user complained that, for him/her,  () correctly displays the polytonic character, whereas  () doesn't.  Can  be improved so that users aren't tempted to abandon it in favor of lang-el, i.e. so that if  works for you, so will ?  I find it mystifying and told the user that installing Gentium should work, but maybe there's some other technical or practical advantage of the rival template that can be incorporated here. Wareh 15:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does lang-el work for some users for whom this template fails? 

message: 
Dear administrators, please add the following interwiki link:
 ia:Patrono:Polytonic
Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian (talk) 00:06, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --- RockMFR 00:23, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki link