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Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
The marks shown on the older examples in those images are Old Slavonic diacritics derived from polytonic Greek accents and breathing marks, which are not the same thing as kratka.In this example from…3 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
The Latin breve and Cyrillic kratka evolved separately for most of their histories, and the various forms that are appropriate or inappropriate for one or the other reflect styles of lettering and ty…3 -
Re: Why is there so much confusion around the Cyrillic breve (and other diacritics)?
I always try to find contemporary professional (scribal) writing, engraving, and/or lithographic lettering when looking at historical type, especially in periods of transition where new styles are em…2 -
Re: Subscripts vertical alignment
I don’t think they had documented precedents, and some time later acknowledged via the OT develop mailing list that the sinf feature was in fact unnecessary and sups could be used for properly lowere…1 -
Re: Google Pics
@"Peter Constable" Circling back to that parenthetical ‘or elsewhere’: this was absolutely the case when printing from type was introduced for Arabic script, where the quality gap between t…1
