From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 3995
Date: 2005-01-19
>Not if you wanted to pass your epigraphy class!
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
> wrote:
> > i18n@... wrote:
>
> > > Probably a writing "system" includes the media involved in using
> it, as
> >
> > Is an inscription carved into a wall somehow in a different "writing
> > system" from a transcription of the inscription on paper?
>
> Depends how pedantic the transcription is! Most inscriptions I see
> only use capitals, and I don't remember accents in the few Greek
> inscriptions I've seen in the UK. On the other hand, if I were
> copying down an inscription, I would normally use the usual case
> convention.