This isn't really "writing systems," and I apologize to those who are not interested in the technical aspects of their production. ... Legros and Grant,...
5577
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:46 am
... I agree no one was disparaging Peter's solution. It may still be the best solution available for him. But it wasn't the only solution. Ken Lunde, in his...
5578
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:47 am
... But they could have created many multiple single byte fonts for tasks at hand. Ken Lunde, who is synonymous with Adobe's Japanese fonts since that era, did...
5579
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:48 am
... I think the real value (in the economic sense) of keyboarding methods is in having something that is transferable across languages. If the keyboards are...
5580
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:48 am
... Equitable in some sense, sure, but in other senses no. Vai (or fill in the blank other language users) are trying to adapt a Western system onto their own,...
5581
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:49 am
... This is an issue I have heard Ken Lunde discuss in the past about hi influential books CJK Computing and its later version CJKV Computing. He preferred not...
5582
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:49 am
... There is nothing wrong with scanning as a solution to your problem. But engineers (and perhaps you too) would have considered (and possibly rejected) the...
5583
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:49 am
... Accountants probably *do* discuss ways to balance checkbooks on some of their lists. Having been responsible in the past for the internationalization and ...
5584
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 29, 2005 8:49 am
... The only proper response would have been "Hellooooo Cleveland!!!! Let's crank it up to 11!". Didn't we have this discussion about a year ago whether this...
5585
Anton Sherwood
brontopithecus
Aug 29, 2005 8:50 am
... Nikki Sixx (bassist) is quoted: "all the kids were going `Mutley Cruh!' and we were going `Huh?'" (Rock Names from ABBA to ZZ Top: How Rock Bands Got Their...
5586
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 29, 2005 12:51 pm
... So Detroit is the opposite of NYC. Interesting. In Chicago, there is only one phoneme, and it comes out as the pronunciation that in NY goes with /eh/. The...
5587
Marco Cimarosti
marcocimarosti
Aug 30, 2005 11:13 am
... Suzanne!? You're joking, right? -- Cingar...
5588
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:37 pm
... Pauline Kael, in her review of one of the Inspector Clouseau movies, wrote that Peter Sellers was talking about "minkeys." Turns out he was saying...
5589
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:49 pm
... Seshat's been sitting on this message for 18 days, yet lets it go through with "certainly" attached to an asinine assumption?? ... "Same" problem? For the...
5590
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:49 pm
... As I said, weeks ago it seems, we tried that once -- for Sindhi or something similar. It's an absurd "solution." -- Peter T. Daniels...
5591
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:50 pm
... Did you skip the first day of Logic 101? "If P, then Q" does not imply "If Q, then P." I.e., "Computerization doesn't belong on a Writing Systems list"...
5592
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:50 pm
... And it would be entirely irrelevant to a book about the world's writing systems. Fortunately, he was writing a book about the computerization of CJKV,...
5593
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 1:50 pm
... Now we're back to 20 days ago. "*Multiple* smaller fonts" is an idiotic solution. ... System 7.1. WorldScript II made two-byte fonts available. They came...
5594
Michael Everson
evertype
Aug 30, 2005 2:03 pm
... Not if (1) one has an old Mac that can't do Unicode, (2) one has the luxury of time to strive for very good typography, or (3) one is using lead type,...
5595
Marco Cimarosti
marcocimarosti
Aug 30, 2005 2:09 pm
... Sorry, I didn't mean to be harsh, or even less so enigmatic. It is just it this sounded so obvious to me that the kind of analysis required by alphabetic...
5596
Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
Aug 30, 2005 3:41 pm
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:24:42 -0400, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... This reminds me of the monumental struggles a fellow associate editor* had at...
5597
Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
Aug 30, 2005 3:44 pm
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:26:24 -0400, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... Taking a slight risk, I say that "facist", a distinguishing spelling of what I call...
5598
Mark E. Shoulson
seqram2
Aug 30, 2005 4:22 pm
... Backslash is used by some mathematicians for set difference (i.e. A \ B is the set of things in set A which are not in set B, or A∪B′). Others use the...
5599
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 5:56 pm
... I of course was using a Mac before there was Unicode. "Typography" remains ambiguous between type design and page design. I have no idea what the relevance...
5600
suzmccarth
Aug 30, 2005 5:58 pm
... Not harsh but enigmatic. ... Are you saying that it *is* intuitive and natural but 'pre-school-age' son cannot do it? He should spend more time playing...
5601
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 30, 2005 5:59 pm
... Yeah it was weeks ago. I don't know why the message was held so long. In fact, I don't know when it came through because I didn't receive a copy of it...
5602
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 30, 2005 6:03 pm
... Yeah those were the days :) It was definitely a transition time between the way I remember my father's company creating magazines when I was a child and...
5603
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 6:06 pm
... I've heard "frontslash" as the retronym for the earlier one that isn't "backslash." -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@......
5604
i18n@...
i18n_com
Aug 30, 2005 6:08 pm
... Have you read the books? He devotes a great deal of space to the structural issues surrounding the writing systems, albeit for a different audience then...
5605
Peter T. Daniels
sweetpeteny
Aug 30, 2005 6:42 pm
... That would be nice indeed, but OUP would have no interest in giving up a book that continues to sell regularly. -- Peter T. Daniels...
