Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
>
>>This article gives some early history to start, and tells of numerous
>>famous calligraphers over the centuries. It refers to various styles of
>>Arabic script, and concludes with explanations and definitions of 15
>>different varieties. There are some puzzling details scattered throughout
>>the text, but, on the whole, it looks like a valuable reference. I'm far
>> from being able to evaluate the document, not being a scholar in the field
>>at all.
>>
>><http://www.ottomansouvenir.com/Calligraphy/Calligraphy.htm.>
>>
>>
>
>I took a risk and clicked on it, and it immediately flipped me to
>amazon.com.
>
>Of course I'm not going to wait ten minutes to see what amazon comes up
>with.
>
>

Hmm. It didn't help that Nicholas included an extra period at the end of
the URL, which at least my mail-reader saw fit to take as part of the
address, so when I clicked on it I got a page apologizing for not
finding whatever it was I was looking for it. Going up a level I found
the correct URL,
http://www.ottomansouvenir.com/Calligraphy/Calligraphy.htm and that
seems to work, but I should note that it appears to use some various
sneaky coding to decide which version of itself to redirect you to (I
wound up at
http://www.ottomansouvenir.com/Calligraphy/Netscape_Calligraphy.htm).
This is likely not a bad thing, but I always get a little uneasy when
pages try to be that clever and helpful, because they often blow it.

No idea why you got zapped to amazon; maybe that's an example of the
"blowing it" that I mentioned, which affected you and not me because of
differences in our browsers.

Technology is Your Friend. You know it is, because the Computers all say
so...

~mark