> Message du 09/05/14 22:24 > De : "Asmus Freytag" > A : "catherine butler" , [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: Preliminary inquiry: Sigla for James Joyce's Finnegans Wake > > On 5/9/2014 10:45 AM, catherine butler wrote: > > "What is needed is an authoritative and complete inventory of these, > > using *images* from the works and notes to show their shapes (and a few > > images to document that they are indeed part of running text)." > > > > I don't have access to the manuscript facsimiles this would require. > > There's a few page-images around the Web, but no more than 20 handwritten > > variants of the most basic sigla. > > > > Since the top scholars still haven't resolved the exact shapes, but all > > agree on the identities being indicated (man, woman, etc), could the > > Unicode leave the exact shapes up to future debate, but set aside some two-dozen slots using Joyce's own verbal designations? (HCE, ALP, Shem, Shaun, Issy, etc) > > That's usually not how it's done. Additional reply off-line.
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