I'm Bob Richmond, a 60 year old pathologist in Knoxville, Tennessee.I've been writing Shaw alphabet since I found a copy of Androcles and the Lion right after...
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Dennis Falk
quozl@...
Feb 16, 1999 12:35 am
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rsrichmond@...
Feb 18, 1999 11:55 am
I've posted considerably more material on my Shaw Alphabet links page http://members.aol.com/RSRICHMOND/shavian.html including an introduction to the alphabet...
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Ixbalam
jaguar@...
Feb 25, 1999 2:19 am
Hi all I've been playing around with Shavian for a while now and finally decided to delurk on the mailing list. I've even tried making a bitmapped font for...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 26, 1999 1:55 pm
... [snip] ... AFAIK While there are several Unicode-aware programs available, none handle Unicode properly, that is to say they don't give you an easy way to...
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A.M.Callaway
acal@...
Feb 26, 1999 2:32 pm
Hello. Toodle-Pip A.M.Callaway acal@... ... eGroup home: http://www.eGroups.com/list/shavian Free Web-based e-mail groups by eGroups.com...
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Ixbalam
jaguar@...
Mar 1, 1999 1:03 am
RE: [shavian] Intro In the message "RE: [shavian] Intro" dated 1999.02.26 ... none handle ... to key in ... Unicode. Try the ... multi-language ... but I don't...
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Lionel Ghoti
ghoti@...
Mar 1, 1999 12:36 pm
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...
