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Foundations of Multiscript Typography

In 1997 Tiro was hired by Microsoft Typography to consult on the production of support materials for OpenType font development. Part of this project was producing a multi-script font used for displaying glyphs in the WRIT database, which was a tool for establishing character and glyph requirements for given languages, geographical areas or scripts (or combinations thereof). This paper discusses the project and some of the decisions and challanges that font designers face when working in multiple scripts.

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Norway House
James Evans, a short biography
History of Canadian Syllabics series I

In the wilderness of Rupert's Land, a Wesleyan missionary, James Evans, develops a new writing system for the Cree language. Deprived of the materials necessary for printing, he manufactures his own; casting type and printing using the limited resources available to him.

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Edmund Peck


Edmund Peck
History of Canadian Syllabics series II

An Anglican missionary in the north develops Inuktitut grammars and introduces the Evans syllabic script to the Inuit of Baffin Island.

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