This inquiry from Linguist list (I get to that mail slowly these days) may be of interest. There exists a Yahoogroup on this script - see Qalam messages 882 &...
... The relevant content is in the early messages. Nowadays the group seems to be more concerned with general Philippine issues. ... The parallels of Linear B...
... by ... Philippine ... represented as ... reasons, ... clues ... understand the ... mind. Cree doesn't have too many syllable final consonants (s,n)...
Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique Chiang Yee A photo of this item and more information is available on the auction page: ...
It's a company logo, a distinctive modification to "Scottrade" set in sans-serif italic, probably bold. You can see it at <http://www.scottrade.com/> (Does...
I received this curious email recently. Can anyone shed any light on this? It doesn't 'ring andy bells' for me. "I wanted to ask you about something that I...
... It is certainly worth asking. That would fit the description. This site http://www.nizarhabash.com/ contains a certain rather interesting collection of...
This query appeared as a comment on Language Hat: I have looked for a long time for a font of the Tangut script... finally found one at Mogikyo... went through...
... Kychanov in WWS lists a number of works in Japanese by Nishida, and also Grinstead's *Analysis of the Tangut Script* (1972), which is in a Swedish series...
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:13:55 -0500, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> wrote: [...] ... I went over there to see what it was about, and it looks like the sort...
... Why don't people with such problems say what computer they're using? I'm using Windows XP SP2, with default 8-bit encoding set to Thai (i.e. Windows-874),...
... Actually, the font name plus text pasting option gives you the codes for the character in the font. The text is essentially the Shift-JIS code. For...
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Hi, I hope to see some of you at the Language Standards Conference in Berlin in a week. If any of you would like to get together next Sunday to do some touring...
Jim Rimmer, a graphic designer and fine letterpress printer in Vancouver, BC, has recently designed and cut a new typeface for Cree in metal for letterpress...
Along with recognizing and using a real abbreviation (see my .sig), I think a sign of literacy is proper use of subscripts and superscripts. All too often, I...
What lovely news, to know that hot type is still being designed and cast! Very nice pictures; imho, worth the wait, if you have dialup. Puzzled: As I recall,...
... The underscore is used to indicate subscripting in the typesetting program TeX, which many computer programmers are familiar with. Sometimes you'll even...
... Type-cutting works as follows. After the designs are made, the punch-cutter cuts the shape of the letter, in reverse (actual size), on the end of a steel...
... 1. Maybe it's the fact that ASCII doesn't support subscripts and superscripts, that typewriters "supported" them only at full character size and only with...
... I see it often in material that was composed in some format that had the equivalent of <sup> </sup> and then copied to plain text. Dad (who teaches...
... Most helpful! The use of braces is information I had hoped to find. ... Gosh, I thought I was a geek; not sufficiently, but not feeling sad about that,...
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:05:14 -0500, Peter T. Daniels ... Peter, thank you, kindly, for explaining the process. I assume that the depth of the punch impression...
... All so true. With plain text, I can understand; however, on a Web page, HTML is all-but universal (FTP directories and such might be exceptions), and subs...
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:19:11 -0500, Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> ... (You must have meant "10e4", btw.) The "e" (or "E") notation is several decades old,...
... No. 1e4. e/E does not mean superscripted or "raised to the power of." It's for scientific notation, it means "times 10 to the power of..." So it is...
... That always bugged me. The idea of such a spoof is good, but the terminology is needlessly verbose. It's just hydrogen oxide, plain and simple. Hydrogen...
Tex Texin dihydrogen monoxide is overkill, but carbon dioxide or co2, is analagous to h2o, so dihydrogen oxide would make sense. And since oh- is the hydroxide...
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