Re: Crosswords (was: [announce] Invented Languages magazine)
| From: | Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 31, 2008, 11:55 |
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On Sat, May 31, 2008 7:44 am, Tristan McLeay said:
> Without intending to belittle Paul's achievements, I think most
> crosswords these days are made by computer.
Depends. The ones you find in major newspapers, I would bet, are still
produced manually. Even (or perhaps especially) the "fancy symmetrical
ones". That kind of crossword must have existed before there even were any
computers, and making a good one is considered an art by the connoisseurs.
Fredrik
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