Re: When the reader enters the digital space for writing, he participates in the unending ballet between characters and glyphs

From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela_at_cs.tut.fi>
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:45:21 +0200

2012-12-22 23:56, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> I figure the people on this list can truly appreciate this:

I don’t. You are posting an excerpt from a copyrighted book as such, not
as a legal quotation for an acceptable purpose. Moreover, you have
distorted the text. For example:

> Homo Sapiens is a species that writes.

The original text has correctly “Homo sapiens” (in italic; omitting
italic is acceptable in a plain text medium, but introducing wrong case
of a letter is not).

> computer -- a tool

The original correctly uses an em dash there.

> From the book "Fonts & Encodings" by Yannis Haralambous

It’s a good book, but the start of the introduction is not its best part.

Yucca
Received on Sat Dec 22 2012 - 16:47:56 CST

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