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Further rewriting of the Writing Styles section #238

Closed TitusNemeth closed 3 years ago

TitusNemeth commented 3 years ago

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shervinafshar commented 3 years ago

Thanks for the edits @TitusNemeth. I'm assuming that we could cite your book for the edits made to this section. Is that accurate? I checked and we don't have your book in the list of reference. Do let me know and I will add the information for this edition to the document and our list of references.

r12a commented 3 years ago

These changes look good to me, and i like that the approach to the historical information is a little more systematic.

shervinafshar commented 3 years ago

Yeah. Looks good to me too. Waiting for response regarding citation before we can merge.

shervinafshar commented 3 years ago

@ntounsi, since this section was mostly your text, I added you as a reviewer as well. Please share your thoughts. Thanks.

TitusNemeth commented 3 years ago

Hi Shervin,

I am awfully sorry, I forgot that I set up a server-side filter that put all alreq mails in a dedicated folder, so didn’t see your replies until now. Sorry for that.

To answer your question: no, my book is specifically about the 20th century and mechanical (machine) typography and its influences on Arabic type design. It may still be a relevant referencehttps://brill.com/view/title/32317. For the section on writing styles I consulted mainly on Gacek’s Vademecumhttps://brill.com/view/title/14879 and Blair’s Islamic Calligraphyhttps://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-islamic-calligraphy.html.

Best Titus

shervinafshar commented 3 years ago

Thank you, Titus. I'll add those to our list of references (currently maintained in a spreadsheet): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/137j59fPt1nkl0h6O72SR50SX3MHk0lWzmqcEaAmo1zM/edit#gid=0

TitusNemeth commented 3 years ago

Excellent, thank you Shervin. Titus