RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-12 Thread David Possin
OK, while we are at it: smelly fonts, anyone? (actually I can imagine how some fonts smell) Dave --- Barry Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:43 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Suzanne M. Topping wrote: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> > >> s

RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-12 Thread Barry Caplan
At 09:43 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Suzanne M. Topping wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >> so now we have a chromatic audio attribute for each character? > >Don't be ridiculous. Sounds don't have chroma. > >There will however be a need for tone a

RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-12 Thread Suzanne M. Topping
> -Original Message- > From: David Possin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > so now we have a chromatic audio attribute for each character? Don't be ridiculous. Sounds don't have chroma. There will however be a need for tone and accent variation so that proper localization can be executed

Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-11 Thread David Possin
so now we have a chromatic audio attribute for each character? a real challenge to font builders and renderers. (sorry, I just had to post it back to you unicode guys) Suzanne, you need to extend the definition of your new group. ROTFL, Dave --- Tex Texin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, Bo

Re: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-11 Thread Tex Texin
Yes, Borge! So when do we start the informative annex listing all the punctuation characters and the appropriate noises to make? ;-) "Figge, Donald" wrote: > > Suzanne M. Topping wrote: > > >There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's > >public television show "Elect

RE: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?)

2002-07-11 Thread Figge, Donald
Suzanne M. Topping wrote: >There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's >public television show "Electric Company") who pronounced punctuation >"phonetically" while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for >the symbols, it was sounds. That was probably Victor Bo