Michael Everson wrote:

Now you're sending the multiple copies on purpose. You're not
"Barry"-like _enough_ yet?

> At 13:39 -0400 2005-08-23, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > > > Yes, and lots of lexicographers, informed by good
> >> >> typography and tradition, prefer façade, naïve,
> >> >> résumé to facade. Do what thou wilt.
> >> >
> >> >Lexicographers do not _prefer_. They _report_.
> >>
> >> Perhaps you've never edited a dictionary. Like
> >
> >Only the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (Manuscript Editor, 1976-84).
> >
> >The heading includes every attested spelling; the lemma is a
> >normalization based on current understanding of Semitic philology.
>
> Grand so. My mistake for not knowing that you'd
> done that. Certainly you do know that
> lexicographers have to choose, and can't just
> report, then. ;-)

As Merriam-Webster explains in their preface, they report the attested
frequencies of spelling.

> > > façade (also facade)
> > > résumé (also resumé)
> > >
> > > The Concise Oxford was inconsistent with the
> > > other word, interestingly, with two headwords:
> > >
> > > naïf
> > > naive (also naïve)
> >
> >The Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate, which is generally taken as the
> >American standard, has:
> >
> >facade also façade
> >résumé or resume or resumé
> >naïf or naif
> >naive or naïve
> >
> >role also rôle
> >cooperate
>
> Rather a lot of variation in both traditions then.

Oxford apparently chooses to prescribe; M-W chooses to describe.

> Thus I prefer to stick with the typesetter's
> notion of "good typography". Err on the side of
> generosity with diacritics. They look cool, and
> they're not less correct.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, facade rhymes with
> cascade, and façade is the front of a building.

If a typesetter were to change one jot or tittle of copy, that
typesetter would never work for that publisher again.

Earlier you invoked "typography." Whether referring to book design or
type design, neither artist has the slightest nuance of say as to the
content of the text.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...