Home of Yiddish (was Re: A Europe of fonts)

2001-05-29 Thread Edward Cherlin
At 4:39 AM -0700 5/25/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I thought that Yiddish was a language without a home. > >ÅöǏǓǧǢǡÇøÇ·ÇÒÅö Although Yiddish is one of the best examples of a language without an army or navy, it is a dialect of Old High German. It was spoken everywhere that German was, inc

Re: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread Jeff Guevin
> At 22:45 +0300 2001-05-24, Sorin Paliga wrote: >> In fact, a fully Pan-European font should cover not only the Roman >> (including Roman extended), Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian, but also >> Georgian, Turkic Latin and Turkic Cyrillic. >> If we refer to only modern and contemporary languages and s

RE: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Everson
At 11:47 +0200 2001-05-25, Marco Cimarosti wrote >Georgian or Glagolitic are extraneous to this typographical tradition, and >ancient scripts are of course extraneous to typography herself. Not so. Scholars need to present them in print and many ancient scripts do have some tradition of typogra

Re: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread
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Re: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread John Cowan
Sorin Paliga scripsit: > In fact, a fully Pan-European font should cover not only the Roman > (including Roman extended), Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian, but also > Georgian, Turkic Latin and Turkic Cyrillic. > If we refer to only modern and contemporary languages and scripts. Don't forget the

RE: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Michael Everson wrote: > Sorin Paliga wrote: > >Historically, we should also add Glagolitic and Old Church Slavonic. > >This would be indeed a complete European script of scripts. > > With Ogham and Runic, Old Hungarian, Old Permic, and Linear A. Sorry but I don't think that the point here is g

Re: A Europe of fonts

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Everson
At 22:45 +0300 2001-05-24, Sorin Paliga wrote: >In fact, a fully Pan-European font should cover not only the Roman >(including Roman extended), Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian, but also >Georgian, Turkic Latin and Turkic Cyrillic. >If we refer to only modern and contemporary languages and scripts.

A Europe of fonts

2001-05-24 Thread Sorin Paliga
In fact, a fully Pan-European font should cover not only the Roman (including Roman extended), Greek, Cyrillic and Armenian, but also Georgian, Turkic Latin and Turkic Cyrillic. If we refer to only modern and contemporary languages and scripts. Historically, we should also add Glagolitic and Ol