Re: origin of term caron

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 06:48:22 EDT

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An (inebriated) American in Paris?
mg

Arsa Alistair Vining:

> Asmus Freytag wrote:
> >
> > At 06:32 PM 10/24/01 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> > >The first time I encountered the term "caron" was in the eighties when
> > >studying the design of Adobe PostScript fonts. Not being a native English
> > >speaker, I simply took it for the English word for this diacritic.
> > This opens up the possibility that the SC2 people at that time cribbed
> > from Adobe... Or vice versa.
> >
> > Any Adobe corporate historian out there?
>
> Perhaps it was the same person who confused guillemots with guillemets...
>
> Al.

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