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From: cbwood@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Clifton B. Wood)
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Subject: Re: Star Trek, the font generation
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Date: 23 Apr 91 06:13:50 GMT
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In article <1991Apr22.160701.3725@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
[deleted: my project about designing an "alien script"]
>Try taking a look at Armenian type or calligraphy.  It's a European but
>non-Roman script, which looks pretty odd to someone who's used to the
>Roman alphabet...

Yes, I was planning on looking into some foreign language characters as bases for
how to make some script look COMPLETELY different from Arabic. Not that I say that
I plan to use these as bases. I have no desire to copy some letter straight out 
of the Encyclopedia. I want this piece of work to be as original as possible.

	Thanks for your suggestion though.

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>Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
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