Re: Videos on YouTube

[Johannes Bergerhausen via Unicode]

Dear William, dear list,

the conference Alphabetica 2019 was held in The Hague at West, the museum of 
contemporary art:
http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica 


West is located in the former US embassy, a brutalist building by Marcel Breuer 
(Bauhaus):
www.westdenhaag.nl

The Missing Scripts Project is a joint effort of Institut Designlabor Gutenberg 
(IDG), Hochschule Mainz, where I am teaching, Atelier National de Recherche 
Typographique (ANRT) Nancy and Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) Berkeley.

Here you can find videos of all talks:
www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/19_11_Alphabetica/more2 


First step of the Missing Scripts Project is this website:
www.worldswritingsystems.org

All the best,
Johannes





> Am 27.12.2019 um 11:34 schrieb wjgo_10...@btinternet.com via Unicode 
> :
> 
> I searched on YouTube for
> 
> Gutenberg Mainz
> 
> and filtered for
> 
> This week
> 
> and I found 12 videos uploaded 3 days ago about a symposium called 
> Alphabetica 2019.
> 
> Apparently held in Amsterdam.
> 
> It seems that the videos were listed for that search as the notes include
> 
> "Presented in collaboration with the Institut Designlabor Gutenberg 
> (Hochshule Mainz),"  … [and several other organizations]
> 
> so  both the words Gutenberg and Mainz were matched to the search.
> 
> So, a serendipitous discovery.
> 
> There is an interesting section in one video about Bliss and a new 
> interesting development relating to the (possible) encoding of Bliss 
> characters into Unicode.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwj2KilAXmo
> 
> Here are links to two videos of continuous walks through Mainz: each of them 
> includes the Statue of Gutenberg and the outside of the Gutenberg Museum yet 
> are otherwise almost non-overlapping in their routes.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scjLxGh17rA
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izqBUQkfByw
> 
> William Overington
> 
> Frisday 27 December 2019

Aw: Re: Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

[Jörg Knappen]

Festival season is over ...

 

I checked it out, LaTeX does the same for the input of an explicit no break space character.

 

--Jörg Knappen

 
 

Gesendet: Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2019 um 22:54 Uhr
Von: "Shriramana Sharma via Unicode" 
An: "Jörg Knappen" 
Cc: "Asmus Freytag" , "UnicoDe List" 
Betreff: Re: Re: NBSP supposed to stretch, right?


So I was wondering whether TeX only does this to the ~ input character or the actual NBSP Unicode character too?

Call for Papers: G21C Grapholinguistics in the 21st century, Paris June 2020

[Martin J . Dürst via Unicode]

Happy New Year to everybody on this list!

Except for the Internationalization and Unicode Conference (see 
https://www.unicodeconference.org/; submission deadline March 6, 2020), 
this list very rarely sees calls for papers, but this one should 
definitely be of interest at least to a subset of people on this list 
(mostly those with academic/theoretic inclinations). The submission 
deadline is very close (January 13), but I have heard there may be an 
extension.


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Second CALL FOR PAPERS

G21C Grapholinguistics in the 21st century—From graphemes to knowledge



June 17-18-19, 2020

Paris, France

Contact: Yannis Haralambous

grafematik2...@sciencesconf.org   or   grafematik2...@easychair.org





G21C (Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century) is a biennial conference
bringing together disciplines concerned with grapholinguistics and more
generally the study writing systems and their representation in written
communication. The conference aims to reflect on the current state of
research in the area, and on the role that writing and writing systems play
in neighboring disciplines like computer science and information
technology, communication, typography, psychology, and pedagogy. In
particular it aims to study the effect of the growing importance of Unicode
with regard to the future of reading and writing in human societies.
Reflecting the richness of perspectives on writing systems, G21C is
actively interdisciplinary, and welcomes proposals from researchers from
the fields of computer science and information technology, linguistics,
communication, pedagogy, psychology, history, and the social sciences.



G21C aims to create a space for the discussion of the range of approaches
to writing systems, and specifically to bridge approaches in linguistics,
informatics, and other fields. It will provide a forum for explorations in
terminology, methodology, and theoretical approaches relating to the
delineation of an emerging interdisciplinary area of research that
intersects with intense activity in practical implementations of writing
systems.



The first edition of G21C was held in Brest, France, on June 14-15, 2018.
All presentations have been recorded and can be watched on
http://conferences.telecom-bretagne.eu/grafematik/



***

Keynote speakers

***

Jessica Coon, Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, McGill
University, Montréal, Canada:

“The Linguistics of Arrival: What an alien writing system can teach us
about human language”



Martin Neef, Professor, Institut für Germanistik, TU Braunschweig,
Braunschweig, Germany:

“What is it that ends with a full stop?”



***

Main topics of interest

***



We welcome original proposals from all disciplines concerned with the study
of written language, writing systems, and their implementation in
information systems. Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:



Epistemology of grapholinguistics: history, onomastics, topics, interaction
with other disciplines

Foundations of grapholinguistics, graphemics and graphetics

History and typology of writing systems, comparative graphemics/graphetics

Semiotics of writing and of writing systems

Computational/formal graphemics/graphetics

Grapholinguistic theory of Unicode encoding

Orthographic reforms, theory and practice

Graphemics/graphetics and multiliteracy

Writing and Art / Writing in Art

Sinographemics

Typographemics, typographetics

Texting, latinization, new forms of written language

ASCII art, emoticons and other pictorial uses of graphemes

The future of writing, of writing systems and styles

Graphemics/graphetics and font technologies

Graphemics/graphetics in steganography and computer security (phishing,
typosquatting, etc.)

Graphemics/graphetics in art, media and communication / Aesthetics of
writing in the digital era

Graphemics/graphetics in experimental psychology and cognitive sciences

Teaching graphemics/graphetics, the five Ws and one H

Grapholinguistic applications in natural language processing and text mining

Grapholinguistic applications in optical character recognition and
information technologies





Program committee





Gabriel Altmann, formerly at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg, Germany

Vlad Atanasiu, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

Kristian Berg, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Peter Bilak, Typothèque, The Hague, The Netherlands

Florian Coulmas, Universität Duisburg, Germany

Jacques David, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

Mark Davis, Unicode Consortium & Google Inc., Switzerland

Joseph Dichy, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

Christa Dürscheid,