On 11/15/2002 02:59:11 PM Jim Allan wrote: >Yet I note the schwa used in the sample does not match the other vowel >letters in style or width, apparently here borrowed from a different font.
Definitely an ecclectic font (and, unfortunately, illegal -- I won't mention the face name or the owners, though they probably recognise their property). >This brings up the question of whether the sample is in other ways a >typographical compromise. I have seen popular books of linguistics that >for typographical reasons used a Greek gamma in place of the IPA gamma >and a delta in place of the ð symbol. > >Could this be happening here? No. I know that the person who created this had access to a larger glyph repertoire, and could have chosen the Latin gamma if they had wanted. They were clearly following some other precedent. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485 E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
