At 08:10 -0700 1997-06-13, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>Michael Everson's cool bibliography of typography and scripts is at
>>http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standards/scripts/scriptbib.html
>
>Nice. You should add Cajori's history of mathematical symbols. I believe it
>is still available as a Dover reprint.
I was only listing things which I actually _have_.
>I'm sorry I can't give the proper
>reference. I think I still have a copy of a paper by Ken Iverson on the
>design of the APL character set somewhere at home. I'll go look up some
>others sometime when I can get to them. Here are the fragments I remember:
>
>The Writing Systems of the World (two different books with the same title)
Diringer's version, well, I used to have it but it was (sob, sob) lost
somewhere.
>The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language
This isn't that informative as regards typography or scripts. I have it but
didn't put it in. (Actually I'll have to go through my library again to add
more things I expect.) I can add it easily enough.
>The Book of a Thousand Tongues, Bible Society, London, out of print.
>TeX and Metafont, Donald Knuth, Addison-Wesley
>The Alphabet Makers, The Museum of the Alphabet, Waxhaw, SC
Ain't seen 'em.
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