At 21:33 11/30/2001, Etienne Kroger wrote:
>"Le bon usage" (Grevisse) suggests that people have traditionally not used
>accents in manuscripts/handwriting, but recommends to apply accents on
>print.
This is interesting, and a good subject for someone's doctoral thesis.
There should be no shortage of manuscript/handwriting samples from various
periods to dismiss or confirm this claim, or to map it's historical veracity.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
... es ist ein unwiederbringliches Bild der Vergangenheit,
das mit jeder Gegenwart zu verschwinden droht, die sich
nicht in ihm gemeint erkannte.
... every image of the past that is not recognized by the
present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear
irretrievably.
Walter Benjamin
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