RE: origin of term caron

From: Alistair Vining (alistair.vining@ntlworld.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 08:06:32 EDT


Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
> 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?

Perhaps it was the same person who confused guillemots with guillemets...

Al.



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