From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 518
Date: 2001-11-10
>I don't find it at the below website.
> At 08:41 -0700 10/11/01, John Jenkins wrote:
>
> >Both Cherokee and Deseret suffer from the fact that they were designed in
> >the early to mid-19th century when American typography was not exactly at
> >its best. I think as the pressure comes for type designers to include
> >*everything* in Unicode in their fonts, we may see some interesting
> >designs aesthetically acceptable in the 21st century. Maybe if Herr Zapf
> >has a few spare moments... :-)
>
> My Everson Mono Cherokee is nice and clean.
> >Meanwhile, it *does* bring up an interesting problem in script analysis --Be glad today's kids can even print. What need do they have for
> >trying to determine what visual features of a writing system are truly its
> >essential characteristics and which are just artifacts of the way the
> >sample happened to be written.
>
> And what about these Palms that make people use completely
> ahistorical ductus for many of their letters? This disturbs me.... ;-)