From: fantasai (fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net)
Date: Sat Mar 12 2005 - 18:45:25 CST
Writing systems are typically classified according to their linguistic
principles. However this isn't particularly relevant to creating a
typesetting system. For example, Hebrew and Arabic are both abjads, but
justifying Hebrew text is a lot more like justifying the Latin alphabet
than justifying Arabic. Scripts in the Devanagari family behave very
similarly, but do not share as many typographic properties with some
other Brahmic scripts. I was wondering if there are any classification
schemes based on the systems' /typographic/ properties.
~fantasai
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