At 09:35 -0500 2002-06-03, Martin Heijdra wrote: >For all script enthousiasts: > >A supplement (bekkan) to the Sanseido Encyclopaedia of Linguistics >(Japanese: Gengogaku Daijiten) has appeared under the title Sekai Moji >Jiten: (Scripts and Writing Systems of the World). It is a very dense, hefty >volume of 1222 pages. It treats historical and current scripts, in general >in much, much greater detail (and many more varieties; Nora script, anyone?) >than Bright & Daniels. A great strength is of course Asian scripts (India, >China, SE Asia), which tend to get short shift in general Western >publications. It's definitely a major work, combining the characteristics >of, but going beyond both books of the Bright & Daniels variety, and those >of the Dirringer/Jensen compendia kind. > >Of course, the entries (which have bibliographies, many in Western >languages) are in Japanese; I don't think the numerous illustrations are >sufficient for a non-Japanese reader, even if headings have an English >equivalent. Moreover, it is very pricy: I just checked at Amazon Japan, and >the price quoted is Y48,000. Nevertheless, if you're serious about scripts >and know Japanese, you should check it out.
That's EUR 416.70, or USD 363.25. I'm serious about scripts and *don't* know Japanese, beyond being able to find things in a dictionary without any speed whatsoever. And that's expensive, Martin. Still... would the numerous illustrations be sufficient for ... ME? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com