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Re: Initial and Medial-Final Latin characters
This is simply a problem you'll have no choice but to live with. Once a line breaks (and it doesn't matter whether the break was explicit or put there by the software), you're dealing with a new Open…4 -
Re: Initial and Medial-Final Latin characters
The medi, init, isol, and fina features were originally proposed for language like Arabic and Syriac. Extending these to language like English might seem useful, but it would in fact be rather proble…6 -
Re: Type fiction
Yes. My position, though, it that it may have been created primarily as an objet d'art rather than as a book intended to be read. I'm thinking it may have been a sort of precursor to the sorts of oc…1 -
Re: Type fiction
I actually read this paper and am completely amazed that it passed peer review. I can safely say that the Voynich manuscript has not been decoded and most certainly isn't written in Proto-Romance. H…1 -
Re: Type fiction
The part about someone inventing a character set is likely true. That it was for Proto-Romance almost certainly is not. I know very little about the manuscript, but I suspect it was simply someone tr…2
