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Re: Stephen Fry re-invents printing with movable type
Pretty much every book I've read and documentary I've seen on the subject mentions Chinese and Korean printing from moveable type as predating the European invention. Many things are independently in…1 -
Re: Keeping up to date – Blogs, newsletters, news sites etc…
Yes, Twitter has become first line of communication.4 -
Re: Council for German Orthography officially allows use of u+1E9E
Well, no. When you go from uncial letters based on formal letters to uncial letters written more quickly and based on a greater variety of models than just one set of Roman exemplars, one gets more r…6 -
Re: Macedonian italic /gje localization
The macron sign on the italic г in both Serbian and Macedonian is an oddity. The macron signs on the italic п and т make sense, because they distinguish the letters from the otherwise identical и and…4 -
Re: Could this be a new approach to Arabic type design?
With regard to the separation of dots from base letter shapes, this is something we did in the Aldhabi project for Microsoft, and is common in nastaliq and other cascading style fonts where the dots …5
