This article gives some early history to start, and tells of numerous famous calligraphers over the centuries. It refers to various styles of Arabic script,...
I should have mentioned the tughra, a remarkably-ornate, one might say very stylized work of Arabic calligraphy. I started to describe it, came to my senses...
... It works fine in Firefox. The source code looks ordinary enough. On my page http://www.ogre.nu/doodle/ do you see the colored background (green with...
I think that sort of url is fine as long as the ".." series doesn't point back up above and out of the document root. If it does, and the server allows it,...
... I took a risk and clicked on it, and it immediately flipped me to amazon.com. Of course I'm not going to wait ten minutes to see what amazon comes up with....
... Hmm. It didn't help that Nicholas included an extra period at the end of the URL, which at least my mail-reader saw fit to take as part of the address, so...
... The ".." notation (and "." as well, for that matter) in a URL *is* standard, and is defined in the way one might expect. Bear in mind that URLs don't...
Newly discovered hieroglyphs show that the Maya were writing at a complex level 150 years earlier than previously thought. The glyphs, which date to about 250...
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 07:45:39 -0500, Peter T. Daniels ... That's strange. I just had another look, and there's an Amazon.com ad at the top, but, unless it was a...
I was playing around with PostScript encoding vectors to make a Thai hack Unicode font (Lannaworld) usable with GhostScript when I noticed that the Postscript...
It doesn't really qualify as "calligraphy", but isn't typeset, either. <http://www.hanzismatter.com/> Correcting these might require skin grafts... (For the...
... At least one tattooist, who disapprove of the vogue for tattoos in foreign scripts not understood by the recipient, has deliberately tattoed insulting...
I saw that site, (or a similar one that dealt with only tattoos) about a year or so ago. Since then I have been paying attention and noting with amusement the...
I don't yet have links to them from appropriate sections in my brand spankin' new website, but I wanted to announce it anyway: I have scans of a book and an...
OK, I've managed to make slightly manageable PDFs. They're still at http://web.meson.org/downloads/ (I'll make a proper index page eventually). Owing to...
Thanks Mark, it's cool. But where is he from that the F in HalfPenny and the R in Forecastle are not pronounced? Tex Texin Internationalization Architect,...
... They are pronounced like "haypenny" (often written (ha'penny>) and "foke-sel" (also written <fo'c'sle>). -- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com...
Hi! ... I understand that my pronunciation of many of these words seems to bo a little too literal... Could some English native speaker give a CXS list? :-)...
Henrik Theiling
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... What's CXS? hay-penny, ?, peeps (i.e. Samuel Pepys, renowned 17th-century diarist), ? but I'd guess = Calhoun, in-dite-ment -- Peter T. Daniels...
A student I was teaching the other year told me of someone spelling out the name "Swey" (presumably a contrived example): "S as in sea, W as in why, E as in...
The Web page was inaccessible; it was over quota, citing bandwidth. That usage of the term "bandwidth" is technically incorrect, but such incorrect usage is...
I came across some amusing articles when following up on a link from a Wikipedia article on the letter W. The Hebrew letter "vav" (ו) was, of course,...
LOS ANGELES Pioneering UCLA linguistics professor Peter Ladefoged has died. He was 80. Ladefoged died Tuesday at a London hospital after getting sick while on...
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