Re: origin of term caron

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 20:01:18 EDT

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At 06:32 PM 10/24/01 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
>The first time I encountered the term "caron" was in the eighties when
>studying the design of Adobe PostScript fonts. Not being a native English
>speaker, I simply took it for the English word for this diacritic.
This opens up the possibility that the SC2 people at that time cribbed
from Adobe... Or vice versa.

Any Adobe corporate historian out there?
A./

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