On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:51:40 -0700, John H. Jenkins <
jenkins@...> wrote:
> Wikipedia has an article about the "heavy metal umlaut" and related
> typographic absurdities:
> <http://en.eikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_umlaut>.
Thanks! "Right up my alley".
I went into strange territory, incl. winning a free digital camera (didn't
bite).
Simple typo...
Ahh.. Back, now. Surprising number of band names there! Interesting
reading. Was very happy to read that the German audience chanted "Mötley
Crüe" with an authentic pronunciation.
While I'm surely not advocating it, when computer typography at long last
permits combining diacritics to actually be rendered where they should be
(do Macs do that?), as well as non-deleting overstrikes, there could be
all sorts of oddball meanings conveyed to Those Who Know by more-or-less
bizarre decorations. (Just don't (do?) let them know about IPA extensions
and Latin Extended!). Bonkers for Unicode!
--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass.
Trying to be tolerant