In addition to the discussion on ibiblio that was mentioned earlier, there was also a substantive interchange on the Ancient Near East discussion list run out of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The contributions all seem to be from people who have a practical, everyday need to manipulate ancient texts written in these scripts. For those who are still interested in this thread (is this the null set?), here are direct links to all the relevant postings that I found there.
The original rfc to the list from Deborah Anderson: https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-April/012937.html Responses (in rough thread order according to the archive engine, but it got confused when some subject lines were "RE: ANE digest..."): https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-April/012946.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-April/012947.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012951.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012973.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012945.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012948.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012949.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012950.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012952.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012953.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/012989.html A follow-up posting by Deborah Anderson, with more feedback: https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/013068.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/013070.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/013074.html https://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane/2004-May/013076.html Ted Ted Hopp, Ph.D. ZigZag, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-301-990-7453 newSLATE is your personal learning workspace ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/
