Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 16:02:36 EDT


At 03:12 PM 10/24/01 -0400, tom emerson wrote:
>Asmus Freytag writes:
> >
> > >
> > >FWIW, Robert Bringhurst's "The Elements of Typographic Style, 2nd
> > >Edition" has in part this to say about "caron":
> >
> > Do you have the date of this book?
>
>1996. It's a fabulous book, 'caron' aside:

I don't doubt that, but being dated nearly 10 years after the early ISO
work on I8859-2 and fully five years after Unicode I would not trust
its use of caron - unless the book contained information as to the source of
the term....

A./



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