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6879 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Nov 19, 2007
6:33 am
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...
6880 Mark E. Shoulson
seqram2 Send Email
Nov 27, 2007
3:10 pm
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...
6881 grendl löfkvist
grendl_lofkvist Send Email
Dec 14, 2007
7:10 am
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...
6882 Luciano Perondi (molo...
a.perondi@... Send Email
Dec 14, 2007
10:59 am
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...
6883 Marco Cimarosti
marcocimarosti Send Email
Dec 15, 2007
12:25 am
... 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...
6884 Tex Texin
textexin Send Email
Dec 26, 2007
12:29 am
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...
6885 Justin
jjmg01 Send Email
Dec 26, 2007
4:13 am
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,...
6886 Tex Texin
textexin Send Email
Dec 26, 2007
4:36 am
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! ...
6887 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Feb 28, 2008
5:28 am
Interesting story about old books written in Chinese script, but so far undeciphered, although there are hints: ...
6888 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Apr 7, 2008
9:10 pm
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...
6889 Philip Newton
elder_newton Send Email
Apr 8, 2008
6:02 am
... 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...
6890 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Apr 9, 2008
7:01 am
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...
6891 pamelajeanowens Send Email Apr 9, 2008
5:59 pm
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...
6892 Marco Cimarosti
marcocimarosti Send Email
Apr 9, 2008
7:47 pm
Philip Newton wrote ... a stylish ... (ΚΙΛ) car. ... Well, Kia are well known for their weird spellings, such as "Sorento" with a single R, or...
6893 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Apr 10, 2008
8:57 am
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...
6894 Philip Newton
elder_newton Send Email
Apr 10, 2008
9:15 am
... 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. -- ...
6895 Anton Sherwood
brontopithecus Send Email
Apr 10, 2008
9:21 am
... 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...
6896 Richard Wordingham
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Apr 11, 2008
11:34 pm
... 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...
6897 Don Osborn
bisharat_dot... Send Email
Apr 12, 2008
3:27 am
Saw this item via an alert for something else and thought it might be of interest: ...
6898 Nicholas Bodley
nikevich Send Email
Apr 13, 2008
8:16 am
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...
6899 Richard Wordingham
richardwordi... Send Email
Jun 4, 2008
6:11 pm
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,...
6900 Balazs B. J. de Berzs...
suebee2000_miss Send Email
Jun 5, 2008
1:44 pm
Does anyone know what happened to the LangMaker site? The last post that I am able to see is from January 2008. B. J....
6901 Richard Wordingham
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Jun 8, 2008
1:45 am
... Well, Kanarese crosswords seem to work by aksharas - example at http://www.ourkarnataka.com/shabdharathna/shabdharathna2.htm with answer at...
6902 seqram2 Send Email Jun 12, 2008
6:21 pm
... 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...
6903 Peter T. Daniels
grammatim Send Email
Jun 23, 2008
3:15 am
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...
6904 Lorna_Priest@...
lorna75236 Send Email
Jun 23, 2008
4:56 pm
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...
6905 Peter T. Daniels
grammatim Send Email
Jun 23, 2008
5:56 pm
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...
6906 Anton Sherwood
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Jun 24, 2008
5:05 am
... Sure it's not Walloon? -- Anton Sherwood *\\* www.ogre.nu "How'd ya like to climb this high without no mountain?" --Porky Pine...
6907 Peter T. Daniels
grammatim Send Email
Jun 24, 2008
5:12 am
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...
6908 Peter T. Daniels
grammatim Send Email
Jun 24, 2008
12:12 pm
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...
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