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Re: Initial and Medial-Final Latin characters
Of course, this shows that Greek, at least, has a legitimate need for 'final', so if that feature was excluded from Greek in addition to Latin, that was a mistake. What surprises me is that this cha…1 -
Re: What do you call this part of an /r?
If in E and F, all the sideways parts are called arms, then the corresponding curved part of f is likely also called an arm. In the case of r, we're also dealing with an essential structural part of …1 -
Re: Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
IIRC, that was because of the difficulty in typesetting Nastaliq.1 -
Re: Regular newspapers made with manual typesetting
He is even holding the row of type in his hand without the luxury of a composing stick! And, yes, Hrant's comment makes sense. In Asia and the Middle East, as well as Ethiopia, people are less well s…1 -
Re: A Fun Find: Early Greek Didot (1790)
Since the paragraph beginning that page didn't give the special or distinctive method used to print this edition, I went to the preceding page, but that did seem to only discuss the accuracy of the f…1
