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Re: Romanée – New Release?
Naturally, all of this reminds me of the dialogue in Dwiggins’s fanciful account of the creation of Electra — his imaginary conversation with Kobodaishi, “Patron Saint of the lettering art”: (Having …3 -
Re: Font or Font Software
Historically, the “art work representing images of letters, numbers and other characters” was considered the “typeface” and the means of reproducing those images — i.e., the physical metal sorts, or …4 -
Re: Capital Eng
If a font does indeed provide for African languages, then I think it does makes sense to have the capital “nj” form as the default, and localize for the relevant Sami languages. But to adequately cov…3 -
Re: The president of Kazakhstan (or is it Qazaqstan now?) signs the latinisation edict
And so we go from this: to this: You’re right, Ray — all that custom work adding Ұұ to extended Cyrillic fonts is probably going to dry up over the next 8 years. ;-)2 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
I don’t know why on earth you jumped to that conclusion!? Here are just a handful of words starting with һ taken randomly from the front page of the Башҡорт wikipedia site: һаулыҡ һаҡлау һәләте һәр һ…3