Ibis Beta Options

Ibis Beta options allow you to customize Beta-code conversion (either font [=encoding] to Beta code, or Beta code to fonts).

The left part of the pane allows you to define the start Beta 'font' in your source document (usually Greek; 'fonts' in Beta code are changed using escapes $ and &) and offer a set of finer customizations:

• output: used only when dealing with file-based plain text: when converting from Beta code into font(s), you can choose to render also the most basic formatting expressed by Beta code itself. In this case you should select as output HTML or RTF, as of course plain text (TXT) will discard any formatting.
• use alternate uppercase Greek letter matching: check to use alternate matching for uppercase Greek letters with diacritic(s) (by replacing them with space + diacritics + letter when this match gives a better result).
• keep lunate sigma: check to keep a lunate sigma when found in the original text, uncheck to convert it to its 'standard' forms.
• keep aspirate letter H: check to keep a letter H = /h/ when found in the original text, uncheck to convert it to a rough breathing diacritic.
• use SAMPA islands: check to allow SAMPA-encoded 'islands' in your Beta code text. This is an advanced option (mostly pre-Unicode era) and I'll not cover it here.
• use extended non-standard Beta escapes (PHE): check to allow processing a special non-standard additional escape in Beta code. This is an advanced option and I'll not cover it here. Its historical reason was the insertion of metatextual (prosodical, syntactical and metrical) annotations into a Beta code text analyzed by the ancestor of Chiron.
• use HTML styles: check to output HTML using CSS styles for formatting rather than HTML version 3. This option is meaningful only when output is set to HTML.
• source is Unicode (auto-detect Greek): check to define the source text as Unicode for transliteration purposes. This allows the transliterator to automatically detect the Greek regions in your source and transliterate them, while keeping the other text unchanged.

The right part of the pane allows you to select the fonts (encodings) used to represent Greek and Latin text respectively. For instance, to convert Beta code into Unicode you could select Gruni for Greek and Times New Roman for Latin, to convert from Beta code into SuperGreek you could select SuperGreek for Greek, etc.