Am Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:58:31 +0100 schrieb Philip TAYLOR: >> Well you only confirm my impression: That quite a lot of scripts >> never felt the pressure put on us by the movable type printing. > Is that not good ? Would Chinese calligraphy look anywhere near > as beautiful if its glyph forms had been forcibly coerced into > meeting the constraints imposed by movable type printing ?
Sure, but people who not only want to look at glyphs and admire their beauty but also use them to communicate through print, websites, mail, twitter, sms ... musst accept that technical restrictions and problems musst be taken into accout too. Scripts have always been shaped by the material (you only need to look at Cuneiform). And when you switch the material and tool used to write e.g. from clay to paper or to computer this will always have an impact back on the script. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
