Re: Scripts

In a message dated 07/05/2002 09.47.06 PM:

>> [ . . . ] keep writing the same shapes over and over again. Letters get
"worn
>>down"; for example, just look at the evolution of the Phonecian script.
>>Excessively complex shapes will get simplified; shapes that are too similar
>>will be made dissimilar.
    Idea: a mutated version of IPA using the script creation "method" above.

    I might get around to creating something like that (mayhaps when my
personal life changes for the betere &/or I get a betere computer with the
right fontware ;)

Hanuman Zhang

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