All Seeing that the group is still alive, here's a question I've had for quite some time: Michael Everson's site (http://www.evertype.com/alphabets/) indicates...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Aug 13, 2010 12:36 pm
It's pretty much impossible to compile a _complete_ list, but www.omniglot.com is a useful attempt. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ...
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Lorna Priest
lorna75236
Aug 17, 2010 9:05 pm
... CLDR attempts to do what you are asking. http://unicode.org/cldr/apps/survey If you just want to know the characters, you can click on a language name and...
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wkuhl44238@...
hulingpaalam
Aug 19, 2010 9:58 pm
Recently Saint-Exupery’s famous book “Le Petit Prince” was printed in Ladino (Djudeo-Espanyol) by a German publisher entitled: El Princhipiko Kon...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
Aug 20, 2010 2:55 am
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:57:37 -0400, <wkuhl44238@...> wrote about ... ... and quoted some text in that language, using the Latin alphabet. This is the first...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
Sep 19, 2010 7:20 am
Recently, I heard a commentary, very likely on Public Radio (NPR's ATC?) about Ajami ("Ajami" -- the term seems to be hoping for legitimacy). Various African...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
Sep 19, 2010 1:00 pm
There was a symposium in April in Cologne, Germany, on The Arabic Script in Africa, to be published by Brill, organized by Meikal Mumin, whose unpublished ...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
Sep 24, 2010 3:06 pm
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 08:41:41 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Good to know! ... Apparently, the NPR program's editors didn't know that. [NPR = National Public...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 22, 2011 5:44 pm
Happy New Year! The article has interesting related comments, including the possibility that typing would use trad. characters, but handwriting would use ...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 22, 2011 9:21 pm
The problem is the collision between Arabic orthography, a variety of transliteration systems of varying degrees of "scientificness," colloquial pronunciations...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 23, 2011 5:45 pm
On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:21:15 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Peter, Thank you, so kindly, for your explanation[s]. All of the above, no less! It's greatly...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 23, 2011 8:14 pm
ok  -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ________________________________ From: Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> To: qalam@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 23, 2011 8:36 pm
On Mon, 23 May 2011 16:14:55 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... Thank you! Regards, -- Nicholas Bodley _.=|*|=._ Waltham, Mass....
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 24, 2011 8:52 pm
Qalamites probably already know what language this is -- Urdu. Apparently, computer typesetting of Urdu has become good enough to be accepted. ...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 24, 2011 9:01 pm
Qalamites probably already know what language this is -- Urdu. Apparently, computer typesetting of Urdu has become good enough to be accepted. ...
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Anton Sherwood
brontopithecus
May 25, 2011 1:21 am
How was a handwritten daily paper reproduced in 1924? -- Anton Sherwood *\\* www.bendwavy.org *\\* www.zazzle.com/tamfang...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 25, 2011 2:44 am
Photolithography. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ________________________________ From: Anton Sherwood <bronto@...> To:...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 25, 2011 4:57 pm
On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:44:58 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... I'm surprised that it was practical that long ago. Photostats were well established, probably...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 25, 2011 7:27 pm
Photolithography was widely available in the later 19th century (I don't know just when it was invented); before that, regular lithography was available ...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 26, 2011 9:28 am
On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:27:50 -0400, Peter T. Daniels <grammatim@...> wrote a helpful message. Peter, thank you for the encouragement about our local...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 26, 2011 9:54 am
Found it... <http://www.inpage.com/lahori.htm> This just about has to be computer-typeset Urdu. Somehow, I don't think it's beautiful; not quite calligraphic? ...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 26, 2011 10:13 am
<http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/> I really wonder about this page. Hovering over different parts of the page reveals boundaries of each news story. The headlines...
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Richard Wordingham
richardwordi...
May 28, 2011 9:44 pm
... OpenType includes a special type of 'positioning' that joins an arbitrary sequence of characters in the sloping style required for Nastaliq. An example of...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 29, 2011 3:15 am
Well, it's nice that they tried, but there's far too much open space in that specimen -- it looks like they didn't even _attempt_ the necessary ...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 29, 2011 8:32 am
On Sat, 28 May 2011 17:44:27 -0400, Richard Wordingham ... {snip, re line spacing --nb} ... =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= (Still on topic:) Patrick Chew was most...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 29, 2011 12:11 pm
Vide infra. -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ________________________________ From: Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> To:...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 29, 2011 4:34 pm
I ran across this while looking for pronunciation of Georgian (TWWS helped): <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_Albanian_alphabet> It has references. It...
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Nicholas Bodley
nikevich
May 29, 2011 4:52 pm
On Sun, 29 May 2011 08:11:49 -0400, Peter T. Daniels ... [Following comment assumed to be from P.T.D.; markup failed in Opera e-mail --nb] ... That's most...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 29, 2011 4:56 pm
The decipherment was accomplished long after the first edition of WWS was published. Â -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... ...
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Peter T. Daniels
grammatim
May 29, 2011 5:08 pm
Since font disinctions are lost somewhere between my screen and issuance by qalam (which is apparently no longer moderated?), I will comment only up here. The...
