From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Mon Oct 26 2009 - 01:40:55 CST
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".
>
> > How about pluglyph as an appropriate word?
>
> What is “plu-” ?? Plural?
I used it as in the word pluperfect, where plu- is a contraction of "plus quam", which means "more than".
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pluperfect
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plural
> Polytype or Polyglyphe seems better.
Yet http://www.yahoo.com gives various links to various other things for both of them and also there is the problem that poly- means many.
William Overington
26 October 2009
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