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Re: Chess Diagram Characters
Oh, yes, this is quite common in older French chess books. Such books are represented on the Internet Archive, and in Google Books, among other places. That's because the French name for the Bishop i…4 -
Re: Chess Diagram Characters
I see that the mold you have pictured must be a very old example, since the black pieces are on the bottom of the diagram. While having black at the top is an almost universal convention, even in the…1 -
Re: Cyrillic lowercase shha (һ) - ascending vs non-ascending
...or, for that matter, in French. But in both cases, y is acting as a vowel. As far as I know, Cyrillic does not engage in such shenanigans; letters are either vowels or consonants, and do not chang…2 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
My position is that I agree with you that there's no need to Latinize Armenian, but I disagree with the idea that Cyrillic letterforms should go back to what existed before Peter the Great. The Cyri…1 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
I almost agree. Italics are, indeed, slanted letters. So mechanically obliqued Roman is a kind of italic, even if it is not considered to be the best kind. Since, though, traditionally, most italics…1
