TC Notes: A Message from the Editor

Abstract

"A routine check of the Netscape home page on Thursday, August 1, yielded an unexpected, though not unanticipated, discovery. The latest beta version of the Netscape Navigator browser now supports the display of non-Roman characters on Mac, Windows, and Unix platforms. In other words, you can now read TC articles with Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac words in their original scripts! Netscape has once again supplemented the HTML standard, this time with a face attribute to their non-standard font tag. Those of us who were sorely disappointed when the original version of the font tag included only the ability to enlarge, reduce, and specify the vertical position of characters now have reason to sing the praises of the developers at Netscape. While font sizes, superscripts, and subscripts are indeed useful in an electronic journal that deals with textual criticism, these features pale in importance in comparison with the ability to display the languages of the biblical texts in their original scripts."(pg 1)