* Herman Miller <hmiller@...> [000421 02:17]:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:22:50 -0700, Barry Garcia
> <Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:
>
> >My main gripe is finding different writing systems and coming up with
> >squat. I do find descriptions of references to them, but no images.
There used to be an excellent site on idris.com (lotsa links to it
still) but it disappeared one night and has never resurfaced anywhere...
It was the best... but take a look at
http://www.omniglot.dabsol.co.uk/language/writing/
and don't mind the broken images and links.
> That's another instance where the best stuff is still in books. I just
> found this at Borders the other day:
>
> Florian Coulmas
> The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems
> © 1996, 1999
> ISBN 0-631-19446-0 (hbk) -- ISBN 0-631-21481-X (pbk)
How does this one compare to:
Peter T. Daniels & William Bright
The World's Writing Systems
© 1996
ISBN 0-195-07993-0 (hbk)
which has been mentioned here before? The Blackwell one is cheaper, and
as one of the editors of the WWS is a regular on sci.lang and I find him
<censored> I'd rather purchase the Blackwell one... but if the WWS is as
good as his propaganda on sci.lang claims...
t.