Can we get UTF-8 in the Story Editor? <g> Barry
On 8/10/2011 3:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:31:41 -0700 > Barry McKenna<bmcken at pobox.com> dijo: > >> Thanks for the link to shadycharacters: It's just astounding that his >> post on the pilcrow drew so many comments, which likely means that >> there are more than just a small few who are concerned about the >> 'roots' of the 'trees' in our forest. I had just acquired Maryanne >> Wolf's "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading >> Brain." Upon learning of the 'ox-turning' I immediately, to my >> disappointment, looked in the index, hoping to find a reference >> there. Unfortunately not. But thanks to you, I have indeed learned a >> few things that may already lend me a heightened perspective on what >> she DOES include. > > I recently read Proust and the Squid for a class on the psychology of > reading. The woman can really write! > > As for the turning of the oxen, I first learned that as "writing in > plowshares," although I don't recall that Wolf used that term. > > Most people are surprised to learn that humans have devised over 400 > different writing systems. About half are no longer used, and most of > the remainder are used only for a few languages. It makes you wonder > how many writing systems Scribus will ultimately support. > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
