The Unicode Standard (version 3.0, chapter 7) claims that Ogham and Runic were still in non-revivalist use to the 16th and 19th centuries respectively. Does...
... I do. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
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Jul 5, 2002 10:27 am
795
... And would you be so kind to tell us where? (If the answer to this question is "I would", please proceed directly with the reference). _ Marco...
Marco Cimarosti
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Jul 5, 2002 10:58 am
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... Is there some way that messages from "qalam" could be identified in the header? When I saw the improbable collocation of lexical items in the header of the...
* Peter T. Daniels ... The best solution to that problem is to take all messages that have "qalam@yahoogroups.com" in either the "To" or the "Cc" field and ...
... Runic: Benneth, Solbritt, Jonas Ferenius, Helmer Gustavson, & Marit Åhlén. 1994. _Runmärkt: från brev till klotter. Runorna under medeltiden. ...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 5, 2002 1:24 pm
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I've been looking at Pahawh Hmong today, but am struggling to classify the script correctly. I've worked through some of the sample on page 623 of WWS. As far...
... Certainly you'll get more out of Smalley et al.'s book than from Martha's 5-page summary of it! Do you realize that there are three distinct stages in the...
* Peter T. Daniels ... I doubt it not, but WWS is all I have, unfortunately. ... I do, and I'm not complaining about her summary. The problem is more my lack...
... A symbol represents a specific vowel plus a neutral consonant -- and the consonant is modified by prefixing a symbol for a different consonant. That's...
* Peter T. Daniels ... I was wondering whether that might be your rationale. ... I agree that it is *parallel* to an abugida, but it doesn't fit the definition...
... I totally refuse to participate in the renewal of this fight about exhaustively dividing the universe into mutually exclusive labeled pigeonholes. They are...
* Peter T. Daniels ... That's up to you, but surely you mean to say that a definition that says "whose basic characters denote consonants followed by a ...
... Burmese behaves pretty unremarkably, Peter. What do you mean by this? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 14, 2002 7:16 pm
807
... See http://www.evertype.com/scriptbib.html where I think there is a link to Amazon for Smalley's book. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography ***...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 14, 2002 7:19 pm
808
... Try to consider the WWS as descriptive rather than prescriptive. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 14, 2002 7:21 pm
809
* Lars Marius Garshol ... * Michael Everson ... I do. In fact, the definition of abugida I use is already different from that of WWS[1]. I was first trying to...
... The "wretched excess" of Indic consonants (compared to the small number of Burmese ones) allows their letters to be used for differentiating Burmese's...
... To what end? Try to consider the text in WWS as descriptions rather than definitions. ... It seems to be a kind of abugida. An ?AbUgIdA as opposed to an ...
Michael Everson
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Jul 15, 2002 9:50 am
813
... Ah, I see what you are getting at. Hm. A number of scripts in the region divide up the excess consonants to indicate classes of vowels, such as Khmer KA,...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 15, 2002 9:50 am
814
I've just acquired a copy of what Peter Daniels described as "the first book on writing from a scientific perspective": Taylor, Isaac. 1883. The alphabet: an...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 19, 2002 6:04 pm
815
I hope you somehow found an original printing (lucky you! all I have is a photocopy) and not the reprint by "Gorgias Press," which unaccountably reprinted the...
... Mine is an original 1883 edition, rebound by Haileybury Library, Hertford, which "discarded" this treasure in 1991. I'd be happy to see the page or so of...
Michael Everson
everson@...
Jul 20, 2002 1:29 am
817
... The Isaac book is indeed wonderfu. I picked up an ex-library copy of the 1899 edition a couple of years ago. From the same period there is _Histoire de...
... Which is to say, no one seems to know what's delaying it. ... How nice to be on a first-name basis with Canon Taylor! I've never seen the Berger (but I do...
... I remember the canon when he was just a little pea-shooter. Actually, I somehow had it in my head when typing that Isaac was his surname. JH Tiro Typeworks...
When I'm not playing as a online guru and know-it-all, I work as a cashier at a fast food place in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma. Tonight, a interesting...
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