> From: Doug Ewell [mailto:dewell@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:59 PM

> But is linearity a generally agreed-upon criterion for an alphabet,

and

> if so, why? (I guess that's really a question for Dr. Bright.)

Non-linearity is systemic to some scripts. The same isn't true for any
alphabetic *script* that I know of, but that doesn't mean that
*orthographies* based on those scripts can have non-linear
representations.


Peter Constable