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

I agree with Yucca. I don't agree with your implication that "good faith" can justify anything and everything.

They say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Sincerely, Erkki

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Lähettäjä: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] Puolesta Karl Williamson
Lähetetty: 23. joulukuuta 2012 6:26
Vastaanottaja: Jukka K. Korpela
Kopio: unicode_at_unicode.org
Aihe: Re: When the reader enters the digital space for writing, he participates in the unending ballet between characters and glyphs

On 12/22/2012 03:45 PM, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> 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
>

I do not appreciate your response to this post, which appears to me to have been done in good faith. I don't have the sense that your response was.
Received on Sun Dec 23 2012 - 02:50:57 CST