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[ILUG] Ogham on linux

[ILUG] Ogham on linux

Kae Verens kae at webworks.ie
Fri Jun 22 16:18:40 IST 2007


Caolan McNamara wrote:

>> Normally though it would be vertical.
> 
> Well, typical examples of ogham are carved into stone pillars, so for a
> long sequence of text while it would indeed start off vertically from
> the bottom left moving upwards, it would be carved horizontally across
> the top before vertically downwards on the next edge, so the
> directionality of the script seems fairly loose.

left-right horizontal on my wife's wedding ring - she has Kae (well, CAE) in 
her ring in ogham, and I have Bronwyn in a 7-bit binary representation of 
ASCII on mine.

Kae



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