... [...] ... What do you mean? Lowercase sigma has a distinct final form in all (modern) hands I've seen - and I don't remember ever seeng a lowecase sigma...
John Cowan wrote:
> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
> > > I though that h-digraphs were a relatively recent > innovation in Irish
> > spelling: in the uncial...
... I don't know it, but I suppose some influence from early medieval German where we have instances of <cz> and <sz> in order to indicate the pronunciation of...
I've often wondered, how did the two case system get started? What was the original problem that lowercase letters were devised for (I assume upper came...
... thanks, the use is unchanged then. this rings a bell now with the little history I learned in calligraphy training. so does the history follow as: letter...
"Ancient Writing and its Influence" by B.L. Ullman discusses the history of the Latin script and the development of lowercase in great detail. You can usually...
... Depends on what script, of course. But no, what you have is monumental shapes being carved in stone (in Latin and Greek anyway) and then at the same time...
... It's fairly straightforward: upper-case forms (the original ones) were first carved into stone, lower-case forms evolved from them as easier to write with...
... In elaborate illuminated Medieval manuscripts, you can find examples of three or four or five sizes of letter from top headline down to text, and they can...
... cob@g...> ... The Carolingians already used to have the very first letters in capitalis, then the first lines in uncials, then the rest in minuscules....
... Well, the 'Gothic' or Blackletter was developed from the Carolingian script. A strange feature of it is that its uppercase letters aren't the capitalis,...
As many of you surely know, Japanese has a pitch accent and there are many words with identical pronunciation which are distinguished only by the accent. I am...
Dear Andrew, ... There are several different systems to accomplish this: 1. accent marks (acute, grave) 2. numbers (counting from the front or back) 3. using L...
... have ... http://member.newsguy.com/~sakusha/dict/martin-je.html ... http://member.newsguy.com/~sakusha/dict/kenkyusha-je.html ... Thank you for your very...
... I've reposted the above links to the Unicode mailing list. -- Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is...
... Semantically, how do they differ from the IPA up and down arrows for upstep (SAMPA ^) and down step (SAMPA !)? These seem to be U+0191 and U+0193, though...
Andrew, always pleased to help. :) ... Right, right, I forgot about that one. In fact, it's also the method used in my NHK pronouncing dictionary: kana + line...
Andrew, ... Yes, you should have multiple systems. But I would definitely discourage indicating the beginning AND the ending of high tone in one word. This is...
... They don't. In fact these symbols should probably also be used -- IPA and (X-)SAMPA are the common contents of =Pronunciation= headers in Wiktionary...
... After all, the syllabication dots don't belong to English orthography either, but English dictionaries commonly use them in headwords. -- John Cowan...
... Incidentally, the software Wiktionary runs on _does_ understand ruby markup already (though, as already mentioned, it has little browser support). There is...
... Just as Russian dictionaries almost always have an acute accent to show the stressed syllable which is never used in regular Russian, and the "e with dots"...
... True, and we do anyway put that in, as well as macrons in the Latin headwords. ... So far I've been putting hyphenation on a line of its own, which is less...
... Sorry, message attachments are not accepted anymore on Yahoo!Groups. If you want to share a file, you have to put it on your own web site, or you can use...
... The fact that the two symbols have the same semantics does not mean that there is no conflict. On the contrary, that makes the conflict even more ...
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