Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-27 Thread Peter_Constable
An (inebriated) American in Paris? mg No, a girlfriend of the same. PC

Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-26 Thread Marion Gunn
An (inebriated) American in Paris? mg Arsa Alistair Vining: 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

Re: Fwd: origin of term caron

2001-10-24 Thread Rick McGowan
James Naughton wrote... The most authoritative-sounding page on the web which I could find when I was investigating this was an article on diacritics by J. C. Wells, University College, London: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/dia/diacritics-revised.htm He writes: The term 'caron',

Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-24 Thread G. Adam Stanislav
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. Now that you mention it, however, it does not appear in my copy of Webster's New

Re: origin of term caron

2001-10-24 Thread Asmus Freytag
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