From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 14 2009 - 12:59:29 CST
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:50 PM, John H. Jenkins <jenkins@apple.com> wrote:
>
> From what I've read in this thread, we're dealing with a case where people
> reproducing medieval texts can't find all the ligatures they need to
> reproduce the visible content of the texts in the fonts they want to use.
> If medievalists are able to send texts to one another via plain-text email
> and understand what the text is supposed to be, then these ligatures don't
> belong in plain text. The people to bug would be the font vendors.
>
>
I've always wondered, why philology is preferred to diplomatics. The
researchers studying the art of writing the employment or non-employment of
ligatures is at least as important a plain-text distinction, as it is
important to a philologist whether the word in question is fickle or ſickle
(=sickle).
/Szabolcs
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