On 2012-09-04, Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote:
My question is about the symbol before the name Уот. Has anyone seen
it before? Is it a NE arrow in a square or a spade? What does it mean?
Might it simply be an arbitrary dingbat used to separate the list of
associated saints from the list of
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Julian Bradfield
jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote:
On 2012-09-04, Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote:
My question is about the symbol before the name Уот. Has anyone seen
it before? Is it a NE arrow in a square or a spade? What does it mean?
Might it simply be
2012/9/7 Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com:
How common is it to use arbitrary dingbats for punctuation?
Extremely common in lots of documents and publications. Without any
doubts. Such dingbat is not very exceptional, not even by its form.
Usage may vary between an abreviating notation (in a
On 9/7/2012 8:12 AM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Julian Bradfield
jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote:
On 2012-09-04, Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote:
My question is about the symbol before the name Уот. Has anyone seen
it before? Is it a NE arrow in a square or a spade?
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Asmus Freytag asm...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On 9/7/2012 8:12 AM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Julian Bradfield
jcb+unic...@inf.ed.ac.uk wrote:
On 2012-09-04, Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com wrote:
My question is about the symbol before
On 9/7/2012 12:39 PM, Leo Broukhis wrote:
Thank you; I haven't seen that particular dingbat used before and
thought that it might have an established meaning, e.g. like in
dictionaries where various symbols separate idiomatic (◊) or erroneous
(¶) uses.
Dictionaries have all sorts of interesting
Thank you; I haven't seen that particular dingbat used before and
thought that it might have an established meaning, e.g. like in
dictionaries where various symbols separate idiomatic (◊) or erroneous
(¶) uses.
Dictionaries have all sorts of interesting conventions. Not all
characters needed
On 9/7/2012 2:24 PM, Stephan Stiller wrote:
Thank you; I haven't seen that particular dingbat used before and
thought that it might have an established meaning, e.g. like in
dictionaries where various symbols separate idiomatic (◊) or erroneous
(¶) uses.
Dictionaries have all sorts of
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
In my opinon the shape visible inside a a side effect of the paper
texture, with inking defects the same size as those visible on the
surrounding letters.
My opinion is that the symbol inside the large square is a
There is no way of seeing what that is at only 72 dpi.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
And given the description, there are certainly other printed
occurences of the same symbol in the same document, which could also
help against print and paper defects. At tis resolution I cannot even
make the distinction with a simple cross check mark in a box (a symbol
already encoded).
2012/9/5
On 5 Sep 2012, at 13:01, Leo Broukhis wrote:
Ctrl-+ while viewing the attached image should help.
300 dpi, 600 dpi, or 1200 dpi would help. Zooming in on 72 dpi yields no
improvement in quality.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
The magnification of the attached fragment is about 2x compared to
what it was on the calendar page if viewed on a 100 dpi display.
There are only two pages surviving, and the second one doesn't have that symbol.
Ctrl-+ while viewing the attached image should help.
I can see quite clearly that
2012/9/5 Leo Broukhis l...@mailcom.com:
The magnification of the attached fragment is about 2x compared to
what it was on the calendar page if viewed on a 100 dpi display.
There are only two pages surviving, and the second one doesn't have that
symbol.
Ctrl-+ while viewing the attached
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