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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
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Subject: Re: Italic Greek
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 01:40:06 EST
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Thanks Chuck for the historical and cultural background (is that an
oxymoron as well?).

Eric Gill (the designer of the Gill sans-serif) has also some
interesting remarks about the use of ``Greek'' characters in
typography. As far as I remember, he flames about typographers mixing
Greek (or mathematics) symbols with ``Latin'' typefaces, while they are
completely separately designed.

It was a couple of years ago that I read it but he writes about this
and other interesting subjects, in ``An essay about typography''
published around 1936. I don't have it myself, but when anyone is
interested I could look up a reference.

	jaap