Re: VMs: USA Today article

[jporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Julie Porter)]

>Dear all,
>
>Jim wrote:
>
>> A new subscriber to the list let me know that there's an
>> article in today's USA Today about the Voynich Ms.  See:
>
>Actually, the 'main' location of the article is in the author's
>(equally hard-to-find) column at:
>
>http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/net022.htm
>
>This has links and some pictures.
>(And it lets you go to his past articles, of which I can recommend
>the one about crank.net).
>
>> Rene Zandbergen and Gabriel Landini are quoted at some length.
>> Other than citing the manuscript's age as 361 years, it appears
>> to be remarkably low on bogons.
>
>Well, I regret the overly amount of attention on myself, but
>specifically asked him to change one thing: the Voynich font
>was designed exclusively by Gabriel.
I seem to recall making a Postscript Type 1 Version myself from an existing
font. It was a collabritive effort. Some of it goes back to Bennett. I am
pretty sure I introed the * splat for unreadable glyphs. I do reallize this
was a few years back. Still one likes to have credit for work done no
matter how small.
-jP

 We'll see if he complies.
>It should be easy but he'd have to tell his chief editor (or
>whatever) that he made a mistake.
>
>And then, of course, he got my nationality wrong and my age right :-)
>
>Cheers, Rene