I agree with Yucca. I don't agree with your implication that "good faith" can justify anything and everything.
They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sincerely, Erkki -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Puolesta Karl Williamson Lähetetty: 23. joulukuuta 2012 6:26 Vastaanottaja: Jukka K. Korpela Kopio: [email protected] Aihe: Re: When the reader enters the digital space for writing, he participates in the unending ballet between characters and glyphs On 12/22/2012 03:45 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > 2012-12-22 23:56, Costello, Roger L. wrote: > >> I figure the people on this list can truly appreciate this: > > I don’t. You are posting an excerpt from a copyrighted book as such, > not as a legal quotation for an acceptable purpose. Moreover, you have > distorted the text. For example: > >> Homo Sapiens is a species that writes. > > The original text has correctly “Homo sapiens” (in italic; omitting > italic is acceptable in a plain text medium, but introducing wrong > case of a letter is not). > >> computer -- a tool > > The original correctly uses an em dash there. > >> From the book "Fonts & Encodings" by Yannis Haralambous > > It’s a good book, but the start of the introduction is not its best part. > > Yucca > I do not appreciate your response to this post, which appears to me to have been done in good faith. I don't have the sense that your response was.
