Re: Etruscan

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 08:32:10 EST


Ar 22:50 -0800 2000-01-19, scríobh Edward Cherlin:
>At 07:48 -0800 2000/01/14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
>>On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Timothy Partridge wrote:
>>
>> > Some Latin texts have individual mirrored characters, especially when the
>> > character is an abbreviation for a name. I would agree though that should
>> > not have the mirrored property. (Texts written RTL seem more common to me
>> > than mirrored ones, but that may reflect the relative ease of doing them
>> > with traditional printing.)
>> >
>> > Your Egyptian proposal contained a control to mirror a single character.
>> > Surely this is more widely applicable.

The proposed character mirrors the glyph of a single character without
changing the inherent directionality. That is not what Etruscan requires.

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