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Re: Jim Parkinson's obit in the NYT
Thanks for posting this. Jim Parkinson didn’t just capture the zeitgeist, he created it.4 -
Re: Hebrew dagesh ḥazaq proposal draft
The BFBS Hebrew Bible was published in 1883 from material typeset in Vienna some decades earlier. (Electros from that setting were used in many publications well into the 20th century.) It is no long…1 -
Re: Hebrew dagesh ḥazaq proposal draft
The problem in Yeivin’s book was not the term, but rather in the translation by E.J. Revell. The Unicode committee should be made aware that, unlike the regular dagesh, there is no need for a set of …2 -
Re: The kerning on the pope’s tomb
It seems to me that poor spacing as a “symbol of humility” is similar to claiming that ransom note typography expresses universalist (I.e., catholic [lc]) sentiment. The disgraceful performance of le…7 -
Re: Should I include small caps etc. in an authentic italic font revival?
For anyone interested in the general topic of the history of small caps, here's a article worth perusing: https://works.hcommons.org/records/f1wzt-01t733
