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Thread #52506 Message #1199893
Posted By: Rasener
04-Jun-04 - 01:45 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Creating New Fonts - Advice Please
Subject: RE: Tech: Creating New Fonts - Advice Please
Just in case anybody wants to know what orthography is, then read on.
The orthography of a language is the set of rules of how to write correctly in the language. The term is derived from Greek ïñèï ortho- ("correct") and ãñáöïò graphos ("that writes") and, in today's sense, includes spelling and punctuation. Orthography is distinct from typography. An example of an orthographic rule for English is
A vowel that is not preceded immediately by another vowel, and is followed by an "E" at the end of the word, without any consonants between the vowel and the "E" may represent the "long" sound of the vowel. (This is the pronunciation rule "final E makes the vowel long" restated as a spelling rule.)