At 14:22 -0700 2004-07-03, Doug Ewell wrote:
Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:

Only specialists can make sense of them,

Pray tell, why so? Is the letter "�" an usuperable obstacle for those who know only the letter "a"?...

 Can't the "remove diacriticals" action be performed in the reader's
 brain, instead of in the typesetter's office?

But if the reader merely removes the diacriticals,

He means, I think, that the reader ignores them, not knowing what they mean.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com




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