Actually, you will need three faces for the main body. The original
has the names in bold, the directions in italic, and the main text is
plain. I really would prefer to see a facsimile reprinting, as the
original font is really quite gorgeous.
Craig
On May 20, 2004, at 5:58 PM, shavian@... wrote:
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> 1. Re: Republishing Shaw's Androcles and the Lion in America
> From: "paul vandenbrink" <pvandenbrink@...>
> 2. Congratulations on a new and better Shavian font.
> From: "paul vandenbrink" <pvandenbrink@...>
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> From: "paul vandenbrink" <pvandenbrink@...>
> Subject: Re: Republishing Shaw's Androcles and the Lion in America
>
> Hi Star
>
> First thing, is the book has to be all typed into a set of computer
> files. I suggest that we use Hugh & Phil's Ikonboard, because it
> allows for both T.O. aand the Shaw Alphabet files. Also it has
> viewing and editing facilities, so the work can be checked by
> everybody and easily corrected.
> Secondly, as a pre-requisite to the first step we need to break the
> Book down into managable chunks. Since I have copy of the original,
> I can put the Outline of the book down, so eveyone will know how the
> pieces fit together.
> Thirdly, Some one needs to write the Epilogue.
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> Regards, Paul V.
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> --- In shavian@..., Star Raven <celestraof12worlds@y...>
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>> Hey neat! when do we start? Great idea for the epilogue too!
>> --Star
>>
>> --- paul vandenbrink <pvandenbrink@s...> wrote:
>>> Hi Hugh & Paige
>>>
>>> I believe we should be able to go ahead with the project, and
> have the book published in America. We need two fonts. One smaller
> one for the Stage Directions of which there are a plentitude, and a
> cleaner font for the Dialog of the Play. Perhaps even a third font
> for the notes and foreward, which were not transliterated in the
> original edition.
> It would be appropriate to have an epilogue to the book written
> solely in the Shaw Alphabet.
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> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:02:46 -0000
> From: "paul vandenbrink" <pvandenbrink@...>
> Subject: Congratulations on a new and better Shavian font.
>
> Thanks, Joe
> Above all for raising the priority on making this new font.
> Who needs a new piano anyway. A fixed-width Shavian font, is much
> more useful innovation.
> I really liked Shaw-Mono. Almost all the letters were more clearly
> differentiated in your format, and most of them looked better
> esthetically as well. I especially like your take on the Yea and the
> W letter. Normally they look a little out of place in most Shaw
> fonts, but here in your font, they fit right in.
>
> So now let me quibble a little bit about the ones that I thought
> could be improved.
>
> 1. I like the new form for Urge/Err and Air. They remind me of Mayan
> Glyphs for some reason. But, unforunately they resemble each other
> too much. It is hard to distinguish them from each other, in the
> smaller point sizes. I didn't like the look of the "ar" letter, but
> all the other r-sound letters looked great.
>
> 2. Ian looks too much like a lower case "r" in T.O. But then I rarely
> use Ian anyway, so I can live with that.
>
> 3. The Up letter looks like typesetting error, top heavy or something.
>
> Regards, Paul V.
>
> P.S. What is the new Shaw Character represented by pressing an upper
> case "L"?
> It looks nice but I didn't recognise what it is for.
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> --- In shavian@..., "Joe" <allegrox_2000@y...> wrote:
>> Hey, this thread is back from the dead! Anyway, I should point out
> that I don't have a
>> daughter. Or any other kids. I don't have any such attachments,
> and I'd like to keep
>> it that way for a while. I'm only 18!
>>
>> But you made a good point. I did raise the priority on that font,
> and the result is
>> available at:
>>
>> http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/
>> IBGsQFCZhVX8EEv1FaqXOorBn0ATwY7Kk_DHZOkIQh7b0aEf-O7g-
>> CpM3RutPcXVbcNIzw0CbUP-mcPxxMHGm-uair0AAFLBtEMP/fonts/windows/
>> shaw_mono.ttf
>>
>> That's a long URL. Anyway, it's in the group's files. It could
> probably use some work,
>> but I'd appreciate it if people would try it out and give me their
> opinions. And, even
>> though it's technically a Windows font, it should still work in Mac
> OS X.
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