i18n@... wrote:

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> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > i18n@... wrote:
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> > And it would be entirely irrelevant to a book about the world's writing
> > systems. Fortunately, he was writing a book about the computerization of
> > CJKV, where it would be relevant.
>
> Have you read the books? He devotes a great deal of space to the
> structural issues surrounding the writing systems, albeit for a
> different audience then you. But cal least large sunks of it is closer
> to your approach then you might realize.

I looked at it in a bookstore, almost ten years ago, no? It was $60.

What is "my approach"?

> > The publisher had absolutely no interest whatsoever in the content of
> > the book. No one at their office ever read a word of it (other than one
> > sample chapter, I think) before it was published, and probably never
> > afterward, either.
>
> Wow how disappointing and frustrating that must be for an author, any
> author! Did you ever wish you did it differently in retrospect?

There are a few contributors who didn't write what was asked for.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...