At 23:50 +0200 2002-08-13, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
>Hi Michael,
>
>ME> I want to be able to send a Blissymbol string with a gloss in
>ME> English or Swedish attached.
>
>Do you need this in plain text?
We are exploring what to do.
>If I understand Blissymbols correctly,
>this is just to give an explanation of the Blissymbol string, much
>like giving the Pinyin pronunciation to a Han ideograph or giving IPA
>for a native orthography in linguistics textbooks.
But Blissymbols are most often transmitted (in gifs for instance)
with glosses which help people not literate in Blissymbols but able
to read other languages to understand what is being said.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
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