Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]

2011-09-02 Thread Rick McGowan
Chris, How does this differ from what the Script Encoding Initiative is already trying to do? It is an art project, not a script encoding project. The artist is seeking financial support for finishing a massive woodworking project with accompanying b

Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]

2011-09-02 Thread Philippe Verdy
The SEI goal is for encoding old scripts, not much about preserving their artistic shapes. I think that the Endangered Alphabets Project is focusing on preserving the artistic typography of old scripts (but not only old scripts, this also concerns modern scripts whise evolution is oversimplifying t

Re: Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Fynn
How does this differ from what the Script Encoding Initiative is already trying to do? Chris On 15/08/2011, d...@bisharat.net wrote: > Forwarding the following although it's off the list topic since the scripts > it covers would include at least some that

Fw: Endangered Alphabets [OT]

2011-08-15 Thread dzo
Forwarding the following although it's off the list topic since the scripts it covers would include at least some that have figured in discussions here and/or the work of various list subscribers. (I personally have no connection with this project, so plz address any questions to Mr. Brookes, cc