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6879
Perhaps most Qalamites know of it: I did not. It shows font samples, and at least in some cases, the sizes for a given writing system have been adjusted for...
Nicholas Bodley
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Nov 19, 2007
6:33 am
6880
Here's a book that you're *supposed* to burn. http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/13/well-done-a-food-company-annual-report-that-has-to-be-cooked-first/ Report from...
Mark E. Shoulson
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Nov 27, 2007
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6881
Hi there! I'm going to spend a few days in Rome, Florence, and Milan in January... Do any of you have any recommendations of manuscript, typography, and/or...
grendl löfkvist
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Dec 14, 2007
7:10 am
6882
Hi, I'm sorry because almost all the website are in italian only. Milan: Biblioteca Ambrosiana http://www.ambrosiana.it/ita/index.asp Biblioteca Trivulziana...
Luciano Perondi (molo...
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Dec 14, 2007
10:59 am
6883
... Do any of you ... museums that I ... illuminated manuscripts, ... There is a "museum of writing" in San Miniato, about 30 km from Florence, on your road...
Marco Cimarosti
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Dec 15, 2007
12:25 am
6884
Hi all, First off, my best holiday and New Year wishes to you all. Second, I received a truly wonderful gift this year, which I thought I should share with...
Tex Texin
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Dec 26, 2007
12:29 am
6885
That is very cool. On flickr you say the artist is based in Portland -- judging by your location (as per your web site), I'm guessing you mean Portland,...
Justin
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Dec 26, 2007
4:13 am
6886
oops. I'll fix it. He is in portalnd oregon. And I am no longer in Boston. I am now in Silicon valley. I'll check out your doodles! ...
Tex Texin
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Dec 26, 2007
4:36 am
6887
Interesting story about old books written in Chinese script, but so far undeciphered, although there are hints: ...
Nicholas Bodley
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Feb 28, 2008
5:28 am
6888
It seems to be appearing more often in advertising typography as a stylish replacement for [A]. I first noticed it in the logo for the KIA (ΚΙΛ) car. ( I...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 7, 2008
9:10 pm
6889
... IIRC, they did indeed use a short crossbar in Greece, though it didn't span all the way from one leg to the other. (I think it started on the left leg and...
Philip Newton
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Apr 8, 2008
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6890
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:02:41 -0400, Philip Newton ... This kind of info has a great deal of appeal for me! Thank you, indeed. I spent some time at the Greek...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 9, 2008
7:01 am
6891
Even though text messaging allows for the use of all sorts of shorthand & spell-as-it-sounds conventions like nite for night, tho for though, BRB, BTW, and the...
pamelajeanowens
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Apr 9, 2008
5:59 pm
6892
Philip Newton wrote ... a stylish ... (&#922;&#921;&#923;) car. ... Well, Kia are well known for their weird spellings, such as "Sorento" with a single R, or...
Marco Cimarosti
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Apr 9, 2008
7:47 pm
6893
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:47:48 -0400, Marco Cimarosti ... I've had the same thought for some time, seeing the logo and saying "Kil" to myself sotto voce. (How...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 10, 2008
8:57 am
6894
... Character 0xCB (decimal 203) is Lambda in ISO-8859-7/Windows-1253 but E-diaeresis in ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252; I'm sure the reason is related to that. -- ...
Philip Newton
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Apr 10, 2008
9:15 am
6895
... This reminds me that some hyper-sensitive people complained that the name KIA is offensive to war veterans (particularly those of the Korean War) because...
Anton Sherwood
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Apr 10, 2008
9:21 am
6896
... company's ... "Kil" ... I say it to myself that way as well. As Adecco displays its name with a final medial sigma, I tend to read its name as a drawled...
Richard Wordingham
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Apr 11, 2008
11:34 pm
6897
Saw this item via an alert for something else and thought it might be of interest: ...
Don Osborn
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Apr 12, 2008
3:27 am
6898
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:15:37 -0400, Philip Newton ... Thank you! Sorry for a delayed acknowledgment. Best regards, -- Nicholas Bodley Waltham, Mass. The weapon...
Nicholas Bodley
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Apr 13, 2008
8:16 am
6899
I was looking at some Thai crosswords, and I wondered what scripts people do crosswords in. In Thai crosswords, the items in the squares are preposed vowels,...
Richard Wordingham
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Jun 4, 2008
6:11 pm
6900
Does anyone know what happened to the LangMaker site? The last post that I am able to see is from January 2008. B. J....
Balazs B. J. de Berzs...
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Jun 5, 2008
1:44 pm
6901
... Well, Kanarese crosswords seem to work by aksharas - example at http://www.ourkarnataka.com/shabdharathna/shabdharathna2.htm with answer at...
Richard Wordingham
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Jun 8, 2008
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6902
... Hebrew crosswords work as you might expect, with just the consonants. Since spelling isn't completely fixed in Hebrew, clues sometimes will note that a...
seqram2
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Jun 12, 2008
6:21 pm
6903
I need a Unicode font for Armenian. Unfortunately _every_ usable Armenian font I find at various sites omits the Armenian letter lower-case h; they simply...
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 23, 2008
3:15 am
6904
Peter, ... I know nothing about Armenian, but this page has a number of Armenian fonts on it: http://chanae.walon.org/pub/ttf/armenian/ I looked at erevan.zip...
Lorna_Priest@...
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Jun 23, 2008
4:56 pm
6905
Thank you -- I hadn't found that page. It's amusing that its contact language for roman-readers is ... Romanian! grginor is the only one on the page that...
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 23, 2008
5:56 pm
6906
... Sure it's not Walloon? -- Anton Sherwood *\\* www.ogre.nu "How'd ya like to climb this high without no mountain?" --Porky Pine...
Anton Sherwood
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Jun 24, 2008
5:05 am
6907
I don't think I've ever seen Walloon orthography. I believe I've just seen your name, though, while I've been hunting for Unicode fonts. -- Peter T. Daniels...
Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
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Jun 24, 2008
5:12 am
6908
I've downloaded several fonts that are supposed to include Glagolitic according to the new Unicode standard 5.0 or even 5.1, and I cannot see them, either in...
Peter T. Daniels
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Jun 24, 2008
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