Re: scripts page

From: Michael Everson
Message: 1733
Date: 2003-09-16

At 10:02 -0400 2003-09-16, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>"Roman" alphabet makes sense for the cover term. "Latin" doesn't.

Rome is in Latium. :-) Anyway, as I pointed out, in the printing and
computing industry, "Roman" is a term long-since used for something
else (a typeface style opposed to Italic) while Latin is not.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

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