From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Tue Oct 27 2009 - 12:50:32 CST
On Oct 26, 2009, at 1:40 AM, William_J_G Overington wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 October 2009, Andreas Stötzner <as@signographie.de> wrote:
>
>>> Is there a term other than "ligature" to describe a
>> matrix or piece-of-type with two-or-more non-ligature
>> characters on them?
>>
>> *Polytype*
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
> Yet surely poly- means many, and two or three or even four is not "many".
So you can use "oligotype" or "oligoglyph". And in any event, "poly-" can mean "a few" in technical vocabulary, e.g., "polygon", which includes triangles and quadrilaterals.
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John H. Jenkins
jenkins@apple.com
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