Part of the HTML-formatted text below is written in the Shavian alphabet. To read it you will need a Shavian font, such as Lionspaw, Shaw-Gothic or Shaw-Rough....
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 1, 1999 3:01 pm
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Ixbalam
jaguar@...
Mar 2, 1999 2:16 am
In the message "[shavian] Usage of Shavian fonts, etc." dated 1999.03.01 ... Agreed, that's annoying. ... Are the fonts given the names with no spaces or with...
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Ixbalam
jaguar@...
Mar 2, 1999 2:17 am
In the message "[shavian] Shavian e-mail formatting" dated 1999.03.01 (6:40 ... ...
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 2, 1999 4:52 am
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:02 pm
Yep. Works OK for me. Except it didn't print properly. Oulook seems to support some sort of RTF standard, but I think most people would have trouble with it,...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:02 pm
I can see that we would end up with a Chinese unicode font, a Cyrillic unicode font and so-on, instead of a global font that had every possible character in...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 2, 1999 1:14 pm
Evenin' All... What's the general rule about posting attachments in this group? I want to distribute my Shaw Script font and this is the only method available...
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 2, 1999 7:40 pm
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 2, 1999 7:51 pm
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 5, 1999 1:16 pm
... I've already sent the font to a couple of people (Hugh, Ross) and basically got the response "It's a very nice font, but..." However, I think I've sorted...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 5, 1999 1:19 pm
WARNING WARNING WARNING If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" DO NOT OPEN IT. It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard disk. This is a...
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mixsynth@...
Mar 8, 1999 8:51 pm
Hi all! This is the first time I've posted something here... I tried a short time ago but it didn't seem to work; never mind though. I'm just wondering if...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Mar 13, 1999 3:23 am
Evenin' All... I thought you'd like to know, I'm currently working on a program that takes english text in our standard alphabet, and translates it into a...
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sidban2@...
Mar 14, 1999 7:01 pm
Hi! I would like a penpal who can teach me how to use the typewriter to correspond in Shavian Script. I know the script well enough but I do not understand how...
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rsrichmond@...
Mar 14, 1999 9:20 pm
Sid asks about how to e-mail text in Shaw Alphabet. The simplest way to do it is to compose the text in a word processor, using one of the Shaw fonts, and...
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 14, 1999 11:36 pm
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Ross DeMeyere
ross@...
Mar 20, 1999 3:12 pm
Hello Shavia! [summary : version two of fonts online and a corrected shaw alphabet key has been found!] First I would like to apologize for the length of time...
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Hugh Birkenhead (@ WGS)
hbirkenhead@...
Mar 20, 1999 4:47 pm
Unfortunately, I will be unable to communicate with any of you for quite some time. My computer has (again) gone down, and so I am writing this from school, on...
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Lee A. Miller
LeeM1023@...
Mar 21, 1999 12:18 am
Another source of information about the alphabet is the following book: Tauber, Abraham, editor. On Language: George Bernard Shaw. New York: Philosophical...
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rsrichmond@...
Mar 21, 1999 10:10 pm
Uh-oh, we've got a serious problem here. Ross DeMeyere writes: >>Last week I received a letter from David Fox at the Friars in the UK. He brought to my...
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Mar 22, 1999 4:46 am
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Lee A. Miller
LeeM1023@...
Mar 22, 1999 5:00 am
I don't think Shaw intended the alphabet to be exhaustive. 40 characters is adequate to represent most of the sounds, but obviously not all the sounds that...
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The Roberts Family
Irish@...
Mar 22, 1999 11:24 am
Dear All-- I'm currently still working on a children's picture book which would talk about GBS's unique views on the alphabet (and many other things) and...
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Ross DeMeyere
ross@...
Mar 22, 1999 2:11 pm
... I was under the assumption that this was an official change that just was not widely published. And since I don't like to make errors, I corrected it in my...
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Lionel Ghoti
ghoti@...
Mar 22, 1999 2:21 pm
I too am deeply troubled by Ross DeMeyere's attempted one-man orthographical insurrection. I've always found it odd that "hung" (being voiced) should be tall...
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Lee A. Miller
LeeM1023@...
Mar 22, 1999 2:43 pm
I think the weight lies with the published text of Androcles at this point. Maybe the logic isn't 100% pure, but this text establishes the norm for the...
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Ross DeMeyere
ross@...
Mar 22, 1999 4:04 pm
Attention Shavia, This development is most upsetting to me. I see both sides of this argument. 1) there was obviously some error... why it wasn't corrected...
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Ross DeMeyere
ross@...
Mar 22, 1999 5:07 pm
I have scanned in the letter and enclosures from David Fox and made a PDF file out of them that can be downloaded at : ...
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sidney tanaban
sidban2@...
Mar 22, 1999 6:40 pm
Dear Members, When I contacted Mr. Reed, the Shaw's alphabet had already been in use for 17 years. He had created QuikScript as an improvement. I do not...
