Scr�obh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >In Irish writing that uses the dot-convention, the dot represents lenition. >Vowel phonemes are not liable to lenition, so it doesn't make any sense to >have a dotted i, any more than a dotted a, e, o, or u.
Exactly my point. I believe I had a similar conversation in February 14 yrs ago, with a newly-arrived American lad (when I was still on my first Mac and a VM100) who traded me, for a copy of � D�naill's dictionary (and I considered cheap at the price), a poor, raggedy attempt at an Irish font my Department refused to purchase, but which fired my hungry soul's imagination.
While the bitmap font Gaillimh I designed in 1988 was not particularly beautiful, it never had a dot on the i. My copy of � D�naill's dictionary, however, was bought by me in 1985 when I lived in Tucson.
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