Re: VMs: VMS EVA ii combinations (fq2b.zip: 7k)

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

20/12/2003 1:34:04 AM, Bruce Grant <bgrant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   I haven't been paying enough attention - what definition 
>   are you guys using for "glyph"?

None explicitly. There is no proper terminology either.
We should speak of graphemes and allographs. But the term
which should properly be "graph" is in practice "glyph".

We should be speaking either in terms of grapheme-allograph-
graph or in terms of glypheme-alloglyph-glyph.

Since "graph" is already taken and its use can only 
introduce confusion, the latter would be preferable.

Just one example to make it clearer: a handwritten 'a'
and a Times New Roman 'a' are alloglyphs (allographs)
of the same glypheme (grapheme). But handwritten 'b'
and Arial 'c' are not.



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