WHY CANT I TYPE A j, u, OR w, AND WHY IS A CAPITAL W THE GREEK SIGMA INSTEAD OF OMEGA?
The legend fields use the Numus Moneta font which is mapped to Greek in upper case and Latin in lower case. Since Latin had no w’s, they are simply ignored if you type it (similar to Moneta changing lower case j’s to I’s and u’s to V’s (this matches Latin usage). So Moneta is actually interpreting your lower case entries as someone typing Latin, and it is automatically correcting for common errors. The Numus Moneta font in upper case is mapped to the Greek alphabet and uses the standard classical Greek Polytonic keyboard layout. See http://www.biblicalgreek.org/links/fonts/keyboard.html or http://www.jcu.edu/language/llc/keyboard-setup-greek.htm Since coinage used no diacritical marks, the Numus Moneta font only maps the main characters – those not using the diacritical marks. There are two forms of lower case s used in classical Greek, one form at the end of a word and another form used anywhere else. In the Polytonic keyboard the w key is mapped to the form that ends words. However,
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