tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post6623771527934838626..comments2024-03-28T06:19:50.620-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: Search Challenge (8/19/15): Why all the crazy capital letters? Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-26444796128769076162015-08-24T20:48:22.078-07:002015-08-24T20:48:22.078-07:00Rosemary -- If you look at that book carefully, yo...Rosemary -- If you look at that book carefully, you'll see it was published by Montecristo Publishing in 2011. The metadata for this book attributes it to Jefferson and Franklin, but it's pretty clearly a pastiche of documents from all over. The "misspellings" section, for instance, seems to be lifted entirely from the USConstitution.net website, who seems to have written that section in 2007. <br /><br />Funny thing, the text seems accurate, but it's pretty clear that neither Franklin nor Jefferson wrote anything like that. Dan Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-60828271030726278302015-08-24T19:29:22.646-07:002015-08-24T19:29:22.646-07:00seem to be afflicted with JōN ŧḫể UƙƞȫẘN̼ syndrome... seem to be afflicted with JōN ŧḫể UƙƞȫẘN̼ syndrome… disappearing/non-appearing submissions, the mysteries of the i*net…<br />will try again with the post from the 19th — <a href="http://postimg.org/image/5lznlovtr/" rel="nofollow">Woz</a> mostly visuals.<br /><i>am trying no.❸ †††††††††††‡{ ☞ffffffeeſth ˈshēsh ☜ Ꮉ(Cherokee letter MA) } ƑƑ… this is tricky, all greek or latin to me ,still nibbling danish…<br />❧<a href="http://postimg.org/image/m7pl2hsmh/" rel="nofollow">&, on a </a><br />❧<a href="http://postimg.org/image/hpsizle03/" rel="nofollow">going non-textual/typographical</a><br />❧<a href="http://postimg.org/image/f17k0jlif/" rel="nofollow">sea urchin-ing pictogram (non-latin)</a><br />❧<a href="http://postimg.org/image/egbrasr6h/" rel="nofollow">ocular/alphaBet/truncated-cellulose</a><br />❧<a href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters_of_freedom_zoom_pages/charters_of_freedom_zoom_2.1.1.html" rel="nofollow">…is this still in effect?</a></i>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-78160163630642513762015-08-24T02:18:54.853-07:002015-08-24T02:18:54.853-07:00I ran out of time too but this may be of interest:...I ran out of time too but this may be of interest: table of <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mVTDE2JeQR4tC-PyHykLCFmVKlD6Ko3bBmuOPRF2mvY/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">ligatures per typeface</a> (only for the Latin script). I created this table because it isn't easy to find the answer to questions like "which typefaces have the ff ligature?". [Notice that my table isn't showing the correct glyphs, with all the ligatures, not only because Google Sheets has a limited choice of typefaces but also because I am on a PC, with no access to Mac typefaces.] The table was compiled with the help of <a href="http://fontforge.github.io" rel="nofollow">FontForge</a> and <a href="http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html" rel="nofollow">BabelMap</a>.<br /><br />Verdana, the font on top of the <a href="http://www.awayback.com/revised-font-stack" rel="nofollow">font stack</a> for most Blogspot blogs (including this one), is most likely the font you are reading right now (except if your very weird computer doesn't have Verdana). This font has only the following ligatures: ff ffi ffl fi fl.<br /><br />OpenType and Unicode are extremely complex. In my many many years of being an amateur <a href="http://ilovetypography.com/2007/10/02/typoholism-an-addicts-tale" rel="nofollow">typoholic</a>, I still know but a very small fraction of the whole picture. <br />Ligatures are not the same as digraphs (see for example this <a href="http://unicode.org/faq/ligature_digraph.html" rel="nofollow">Unicode FAQ</a>). Also, ligatures are not the only way of substituting a pair of glyphs or more for another pair. Really well designed fonts, like Lucas de Groot's Calibri, have huge <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/GSUB.htm" rel="nofollow">GSUBs (Glyph Subtitution Tables)</a> and the rules are terribly complex. For example, for every pair, precedence must be established, just like the order of operations in mathematics. Calibri has ligatures for <b>st</b>, <b>tf</b> and <b>fi</b> (plus a hundred more). If I write <b>tfi</b> in Colibri, the first two (<b>tf</b>) get connected with a ligature and the last <b>i</b> remains isolated. But if I write <b>stf</b>, although <b>st</b> could be connected, they're not; instead, the <b>s</b> is isolated and <b>tf</b> become connected.<br /><br />An excellent selection of typefaces with beautiful ligatures is <a href="http://webexpedition18.com/articles/typography-tutorial-a-primer-on-ligatures" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Luís Miguel Viterbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13198394145108636883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-73847701721954959022015-08-23T19:26:02.950-07:002015-08-23T19:26:02.950-07:00Ran out of time but here is an interesting discuss...Ran out of time but here is an interesting discussion<br /><br />1. What's the story with the Capital letters in the 18th century? Were they just throwing in caps at random, or is there a Rhyme, and Reason to their capitalization? <br /><br />[history of capital letters in english]<br /><br />http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10522/capitalisation-of-nouns-in-english-in-the-17th-and-18th-centuries<br /><br />jon tUjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06450649073262987652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-2862191398645844762015-08-22T21:53:34.299-07:002015-08-22T21:53:34.299-07:00This site has some interesting facts & express...This site has some interesting facts & expressions such as where "watch your Ps andQs". Other terms jump out are "galleys" which are "the lines of type from the stick would be assembled in long columns (galleys) on the composing stone and proofed". The amount of work involved was incredible. <br /><br />Life in the old print shop http://www.environmentalhistory.org/revcomm/features/life-in-a-print-shop/<br /><br />Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-797984819664668672015-08-22T07:52:29.767-07:002015-08-22T07:52:29.767-07:00grammar changes since 18th century]
Random world ...grammar changes since 18th century]<br /><br /><a href="https://britlitwiki.wikispaces.com/Eighteenth-Century+Grammars" rel="nofollow">Random world capitalization</a><br /><br />English grammars have changed significantly from the eighteenth century to the present...Noah Webster also had a profound effect on English and American spelling (In 1806 published his first small dictionary)...In the early decades of the eighteenth century, we get some sense that printers found this abundant capitalization unnecessary...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/lang/languagechange.htm" rel="nofollow">In 1712 Jonathan Swift writes to the Lord Treasurer, urging the formation of an English Academy to regulate usage as "many gross improprieties" could be found in the language of "even the best authors"</a>Noah Webster establishes American standard spelling in his 1828 dictionary<br />Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-29233819094312277792015-08-20T07:40:54.137-07:002015-08-20T07:40:54.137-07:00[reason capital letters 18th century]
Why do we u...[reason capital letters 18th century]<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.dictionary.com/capitals/" rel="nofollow">Why do we use capital and lower case letters, and how did both types come to be?</a><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hart_%28spelling_reformer%29" rel="nofollow">John Hart</a><br /><br />[current english orthographic capitalization rules ]<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography" rel="nofollow">English Orthography</a><br /><br />[english grammar historical principles]<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English_grammars" rel="nofollow">History of English grammars...It was during the nineteenth century that modern-language studies became systematized.</a><br /><br />[grammar "Declaration of Independence"]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.grammarly.com/blog/2014/declaration-independence-lesson-language-history/" rel="nofollow">The Declaration of Independence: A Lesson in Language History</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/03/us/politics/a-period-is-questioned-in-the-declaration-of-independence.html?" rel="nofollow">A Period Is Questioned in the Declaration of Independence</a>Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-70341229558926826042015-08-19T17:54:57.181-07:002015-08-19T17:54:57.181-07:00This is great ! Takes me back to Grade 8 where we...This is great ! Takes me back to Grade 8 where we had an actual print class [1958] with movable type and printing presses that whirred and clanked and spun and needed black sticky ink applied to the--(hmm, have no idea what it is called). I loved that class. One time a couple of Bad Boys Broke into the School and scrambled the type trays (again can;t recall the name). Pied ? Anyway I do recall them--the Bad Boys-- being sentenced to sort out the thousands of pieces right outside the Principal's Office. The joined up letters are ligatures--that at least I recall. All for Esthetics in Typography.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />jon tUjonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06450649073262987652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-73078895896632675322015-08-19T14:09:10.661-07:002015-08-19T14:09:10.661-07:00Good day, Dr. Russell, fellow SearchResearchers
...Good day, <b> Dr. Russell, fellow SearchResearchers </b><br /><br />Searched:<br /><br /><br />[18th century capital letters]<br /><br /><a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10522/capitalisation-of-nouns-in-english-in-the-17th-and-18th-centuries" rel="nofollow">The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (David Crystal), emerging orthography in the 16th Century</a> Mentions rules and different centuries. <br /><br />Says: "Americans still capitalized most nouns into the 19th century...and after Civil war ended.<br /><br /><a href="http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/writing.html" rel="nofollow">Some Characteristics of 18th century British-American Handwriting</a><br /><br />[capital letter history]<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization" rel="nofollow">Capitalization in different languages</a><br /><br /><a href="http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/164015/history-of-using-capital-letters-for-names" rel="nofollow">In the early decades of the eighteenth century, we get some sense that printers found this abundant capitalization unnecessary</a><br /><br />[18th century f writing ]<br />[18th century fh writing]<br /><br /><a href="http://babelstone.blogspot.mx/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html" rel="nofollow">Rules of long S.</a> Also mentions word "ligature" and typefaces of William Calson.<br /><br />[ligature typography]<br /><br /><a href="http://practicaltypography.com/ligatures.html" rel="nofollow">The most common ligatures involve the lowercase f because of its unusual shape.</a> Shows how to add them, making letters joined a simple glyph. Also help to give space in writing.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature" rel="nofollow">Typographic ligature, Wikipedia</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.scribendi.com/advice/a_guide_to_the_proper_and_improper_use_of_ligatures.en.html" rel="nofollow">Learn how to use ligatures properly</a><br /><br /><br />[ United States noun capitalization decline]<br /><br />[capitalization rules united states through time]<br /><br />[capitalization changes United States]<br /><br />[historia letras mayusculas] and [lower case letters history]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.erroreshistoricos.com/curiosidades-historicas/origen/1844-el-origen-de-la-letra-mayuscula-inicial-en-el-nombre.html" rel="nofollow">lower case history (in Spanish.) due to Charlemagne.</a><br /><br />[charlemagne lowercase letters]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=flk" rel="nofollow">HISTORY OF WRITING</a><br /><br />English and Spanish have some differences in capitalization. <br />[difference capitalization English spanish]<br /><br />Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-59557393067637646572015-08-19T09:43:21.747-07:002015-08-19T09:43:21.747-07:00#3 These strange double letters are called ligatur...#3 These strange double letters are called ligatures. I couldn't remember the name off the top (studied a bit of typography many years ago) so query [double letters typography] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature<br /><br />These are available using various fonts or you can use the codes shown in above link.Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-8729365902221300492015-08-19T09:37:48.428-07:002015-08-19T09:37:48.428-07:00Sorry about the link issue. Here's a photo of ...Sorry about the link issue. Here's a photo of the page taken from Benjamin Franklin's book "The Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence" http://imgur.com/FIzNFfj <br /><br />Query in Book Search [history of the capitalization of words "declaration of independence"]Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-59215505265244111622015-08-19T09:22:20.156-07:002015-08-19T09:22:20.156-07:00#1 I like the answer from Benjamin Franklin http:/...#1 I like the answer from Benjamin Franklin http://bit.ly/srs_2015_Aug_19 <br /><br /><br />Rosemary Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12291661159622665464noreply@blogger.com