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From: Laura Creighton <lac@cd.chalmers.se>
Message-Id: <200101101807.TAA08863@boris.cd.chalmers.se>
To: 9fans@cs.psu.edu
Cc: lac@cd.chalmers.se
Subject: [9fans] Ick, I was not clear, sorry about that
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 19:07:14 +0100
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When I wrote:
> I am curious as to what font design is like in Japan or other places where
> there is a strong tradition of calligraphy and where letters, like bricks
> or phonemes do not exist.  What do Japanese font designers say it takes
> to make a good font?

What I should have written was:
>I think that the insights one finds easy to grasp about what makes writing
>beautiful will be different if you are used to thinking of letters as things
>that have the property of good-things-to-play-scrabble-with, i.e. a few
>arbitrary shapes which represent sounds and nothing else, or if your
>tradition of what is a language is different.

Thus kana -- the ability to render phoenemes is irrelevant.  Thanks Boyd.

Laura