At 10:20 -0400 2004-07-12, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > I'm not suing anyone, Marco. I'm trying to make sense of what has
> > become a rather acrimonious debate, which I didn't start, and to try
> > to determine whether Peter Daniel's accusations about the Unicode
>
>Who's?

Funny. :-) Sorry for the typo.

> > editors "distorting" his definitions is correct.
> >
>Their deviation from the definitions of the words as they were presented
>to the scholarly public in 1988 [talks in Princeton, Chicago, and
>Milwaukee], 1990, 1992, and 1996.

... which definitions we are to discern from the ether by means of
mental powers?

> > abjad - a type of writing system that denotes only consonants
>
> > abugida - a type of writing system whose basic characters denote
>consonants followed by a particular vowel, and in which diacritics
>denote the other vowels
>
> > alphabet - a type of writing system that denotes consonants and vowels
>
>I cannot provide the Unicode definitions, because Acrobat Reader refuses
>to allow any other program to be visible on the screen at the same time,
>so I can't even open to the page and copy the text.

You could use your intelligence and your fingers to type the
definitions in, and then to inform us as to what specific deviations
you are concerned about.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com