At 09:00 -0500 2003-08-02, Peter_Constable@... wrote:

>John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote on 07/30/2003 03:27:26 PM:
>
>> > > Fraser script: this is not a script, but a Latin-script
>> orthography for Lisu
>> >
>> > wrong
>>
>> Well, then the term "Fraser script" is polysemous, unless you want to
>say
>> that the glyphs of the Latin capital letters have been recycled into a
>> novel script.
>
>I have been undecided for a while as to whether I'd want to consider
>Fraser an extension of Latin or a new script derived from Latin. I
>currently think I'd be inclined toward the former since there is clearly a
>very close relationship to Latin, there are no new script behaviours, and
>the letters can be considered Latin with some novel forms that are very
>clearly based on existing Latin letters.

But Fraser is only ever presented in Helvetica/Arial style, no?
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