From: "Patrick Gundlach" <patrick@gundla.ch>
Subject: Re: undefined guillemots
Date: 11 Apr 2005 22:00:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2hdidf5hn.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ec9559b80018f5bc421e57760143f6f@dandy.net> (Steve Peter's message of "Mon, 11 Apr 2005 14:58:32 -0400")
[...]
> However, this brings up a more general issue (for Hans, especially).
> The symbol is called a guillemet, a diminutive of Guillaume (Le Be),
> the typographer. It has nothing to do with the French word for word,
> mot. :-)
I guess you are right, but the Postscript Name for this glyph is
eg. guillemotleft, the unicode name (U+00AB) is 'Left Pointing
Guillemet', so guillemot is a slightly reasonable name for that glyph,
even if it is wrong ...
Patrick
PS: Thank you for the lesson, I didn't know that yet.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-11 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-11 18:37 Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-04-11 18:58 ` Steve Peter
2005-04-11 19:53 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-04-11 20:00 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2005-04-11 21:39 ` Steve Peter
2005-04-12 6:49 ` Hans Hagen
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