Re: New contribution

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 06:21:09 CDT


At 20:22 -0700 2004-05-03, Mark Davis wrote:

>all, it *is* unifying as it says "Proto-Sinaitic/Proto-Canaanite,

No, Proto-Sinaitic is out, actually, though it's still in the Summary
Form by accident.

>Punic, Neo-Punic, Phoenician proper, Late Phoenician cursive,
>Phoenician papyrus, Siloam Hebrew, Hebrew seals, Ammonite, Moabite,
>Palaeo-Hebrew", but not unifying these with modern Hebrew (and I'm
>not sure where the cut-off point in the history of Hebrew is).
>Making such choices require explanation.

N2311 did the slicing. Perhaps it needs revision. For my part I am
more interested in the technical content than in the justification.
Whether members of this list will forgive me for that focus is up to
them.

-- 
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com


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