“φιλοσ.,” is necessarily the abreviation of some word (like
φιλοσοφία) while “φιλος.” is a single non-abbreviated word, followed
by a sentence period.
This is the compelling argument, which Nick made in his note on sigma as
well, and which I had forgotten. So while I have to admit that
I like to think of the long s as similar to the final sigma. Nobody
thinks that final sigma should be a presentation form of sigma.
Actually, I do, given an ideal encoding system without any compatibility
compromises. I think that the presence of the separate final and medial
sigma codepoi
This is not a typographic decision, it is a spelling decision,
and not up to the font designer, I'd say. It is a typographic
decision whether the diaeresis "digs into" the glyph below, or if
an e-above looks like a capital e inside. But spelling changes,
whether transient or permanent, should
>
>
>I've
>found what appears to be the appropriate stuff in the "writing-mode"
>property of XSL and CSS3.
>
CSS3 is still in draft.
For support for the writing-mode property, see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145503
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/prop
> I am hoping that the first serious Unicode word processor
> to emerge will be Nisus, which has done such wonderful
> service with multilingual stuff in the past.
It looks like OpenOffice for OS X will have Unicode support, no?
Just for an additional note: the usual place to look for Greek and Latin
abbreviations and ligatures is Thompson, "Introduction to Greek and
Latin Paleography" (not the "Handbook to Greek Paleography"). In
miniscule manuscripts and miniscule typography (e.g., Aldus), they are
very, very common
In Mozilla 2002072104, Windows XP, I get perfectly good overlines on
yagh (now). I'd be interested in seeing how it looked with the
combining macra. Anyway, if you want a screen shot, let me know at
ptrourke at methymna.com . I have among others David Perry's Cardo font.
Patrick Rourke
Afraid not. The first poster was correct: Arthur C. Clarke, "Neutron Tide."
http://awpi.com/Combs/Shaggy/557.html
- Original Message -
From: "Francesco Zappa Nardelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Close eno
I thought Plan 9 isn't really a UNIX?
> My point is that UTF-8 is not really up to the task it was designed for,
> i.e. transparent usability with hosts that are ignorant of it. In fact it
> was designed only for UNIX (Plan 9), which is why "/" is sacrosanct, and
why
> it contains no NULs (becau
It was an Asimov story, I think - I should remember for sure, but don't.
But it's too similar in style to his "tell all the Foys on Sortibackenstrete
that I will soon be there" punch line to give it to Clarke.
(Asimov, Azimov, I doubt he'd have cared).
Patrick Rourke
- Original Message
The error may arise from a misunderstanding of the reference on the first
page of chapter 1 of the book to a 16-bit form and an 8-bit form and to
"using a 16-bit encoding." It's also hard to get one's head wrapped around
the idea that Unicode isn't just an encoding until one does extensive
readin
Pehaps he meant http://www.worldnames.net/ ?
> I was unable to find www.worldnames.com which he cites.
A communication with someone offlist (though I think he is on the list)
suggested that Unicode is not supported at all in Macintosh OS8.6 or OS9,
not even to the degree that it is supported in Windows 9x, except by means
of Windows emulation (if I'm characterizing the message correctly; it is on
a
Sure enough. And I'm certainly never going to criticize someone for
treating it as a script until it is proven otherwise - including for the
purposes of Unicode. But one has to admit that one excellent piece of
evidence that a script is a script is the existence of multiple texts, and
that in th
day, January 31, 2001 10:54 AM
Subject: Re: ConScript registry?
On Wednesday, January 31, 2001, at 06:14 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
> Ar 05:46 -0800 2001-01-31, scríobh P. T. Rourke:
>> I'm curious: what are the historical scripts that have been proposed to
>> Unicode that
I'm curious: what are the historical scripts that have been proposed to
Unicode that only exist in a handful of documents (note that I define
handful as 20 or less)? Other than the Phaistos Disk "script," which may
not be a script at all (it seems odd that there would be a script in as
heavily st
Exactly: Tamil does not use strokes (it is not ideographic, is not built
from radicals) or a bar (like e.g. Devanagari does); or, as far as I can
remember, even ligatures. The characters are rounded (this is supposedly a
consequence of the original writing medium when the Tamil syllabary was
deve
By "archaic text," I assume you mean when one wishes to represent the way
e.g. Pindar would have spelled (he would not have used the 24 letter
alphabet, anyway; a number of characters were added in the late 5th century,
the "classical" period that usually begins after the "archaic" period ends
in
Several of the glyphs are reminiscent of Coptic, so Jonathan Rosenne's
suggestion (Demotic Egyptian) might be a good place to start, if that makes
any sense.
Patrick Rourke
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From: "Jonathan Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Mon
> Just to expand upon this with data:
>
> 1. When I learned Latin in the U.S. in the 1960s, we were taught a
> reconstructed Roman pronunciation.
Before someone asks him how anyone could know how say a 1st c. ce Roman
pronounced things, reconstruction can be informed by such things as
translitera
See http://www.suttondesigns.com/cgi-bin/web16/index2.cgi?read=290. It
sounds to me like Enigma is nothing more than a skin & some features added
onto an Internet Explorer browser component.
Patrick Rourke
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From: "Alan Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Unicode List" <
Forgive me for responding in English; I would be afraid to try out my
impoverished (and never rich) French after so many years of neglect. There
are figures (not necessarily reliable figures) for English use and knowledge
in David Crystal, *English as a Global Language.* From what I remember, 30%
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