Ascender may refer to Ascender climbing the rope climbing device Ascender Corporation the font company Ascender typography ascenders in typography XP 55 Ascender Curtiss Wright XP 55 Ascender prototype aircraft Self locking device Floating cam ascender Floating cam ascender self locking device for climbers Isuzu Ascender the sports utility vehicle JP Aerospace Ascender JP Aerospace Ascender spaceship launch airship JP Aerospace Orbital Ascender JP Aerospace Orbital Ascender orbital airship design Pterodactyl Ascender ultralight aircraft See also Ascend disambiguation Ascendancy disambiguation disambig de Hampe fr Hampe ... more details
Onesource date April 2009 Infobox Automobile image Image Isuzu Ascender 7Pass.jpg 250px 7 passenger Isuzu Ascender name Isuzu Ascender manufacturer General Motors parent company production 2003 2008 predecessor Isuzu Axiom For 5 Passenger Version br Isuzu Rodeo For 5 Passenger Version br Isuzu Trooper For 7 Passenger Version class Mid size Full size SUV successor GMC Terrain For 5 Passenger Version br GMC Acadia For 7 Passenger Version platform GMT360 GMT360 br GMT370 EXT layout Front engine design ... Vortec engine 4200 Vortec Inline 6 The Isuzu Ascender was a mid size full size SUV built by General Motors for Isuzu . Introduced for the 2003 model year, the 7 passenger Ascender was a re badged GMC ..., cars, and SUVs but the Ascender was Isuzu s last and only passenger vehicle until the introduction .... The Ascender was never sold in Canada as Isuzu had announced, at the time, its withdrawal from there. File 2005 Isuzu Ascender.jpg thumb left Rear view of five passenger Ascender The Ascender is the only ... owned by GM until spring 2006 . The 7 passenger Ascender was dropped after the 2006 model year. Reviews ... powertrain warranty, and substantial factory incentives. Image Isuzu Ascender 5Pass.jpg 175px thumb left Five passenger Ascender The Ascender ended production on June 6, 2008, as part of Isuzu s withdrawal from the United States market. ref cite web url http www.topix.com wire autos isuzu ascender title Isuzu Ascender Wire publisher Topix date accessdate 2010 10 05 ref The Ascender along with the related ... platform . A 2005 2008 Ascender was recalled by a crash test which received a Poor safety rating ... L 323 in V8 with Displacement on Demand References commonscat inline Isuzu Ascender reflist Isuzu United States Category Isuzu vehicles Ascender Category 2000s automobiles Category SUVs Category Vehicles introduced in 2003 Modern auto stub de Isuzu Ascender el Isuzu Ascender fa ja pt Isuzu Ascender sco Isuzu Ascender ... more details
Ascender Corporation is a digital typeface foundry and software development company located in the Chicago .... Currently Ascender Corporation markets both directly to consumers with font packs and individual ... viewing. Type Designers Steve Matteson , one of Ascender s founding partners and lead type ..., Curlz and Endurance. Another founding partner of Ascender, Thomas Rickner Tom Rickner , specializes ... Tahoma , Tekton and Verdana . Products In the same year that Ascender was formed, it released its ... slanted. In 2005, Ascender announced that it entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corporation ... and operating systems. In that same year Ascender announced that it had a distribution agreement ... the fonts for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Ascender s type designers ... and marketing around the world. At the end of 2005 Ascender announced its first OpenType Pro font, Pericles ..., small capitals, superscript, subscript and petite small capital letters. In 2006 Ascender released ... Content. Also in 2006 Ascender introduced a software product for mobile phones the Ascender ... components for users to personalize their Windows Mobile phone. In November, 2007 Ascender announced ... pr pr2007 11 12.html Droid font for Android platform ref In 2007 Ascender executed a license ... on screen legibility. Ascender also created the Liberation fonts distributed by Red Hat. In the same year Ascender made the Microsoft ClearType Font Collection available to end users looking to utilize ... Windows versions . In December 8, 2010 Ascender Corp. was acquired by Monotype Imaging. Research Ascender has conducted numerous typographic related research projects including a study on the typefaces ... Ascender study researched the free and shareware fonts that can be found on the most popular Websites ... links http www.ascendercorp.com Ascender Corporation http www.microsoft.com typography default.mspx ... type foundries Category Companies established in 2004 Category Graphic design ca Ascender Corporation ... more details
B202.jpg caption Pterodactyl Ascender II 2 Infobox Aircraft Type type ultralight personal, trainer ... Climbing With Ascender II.jpg thumb right Jack McCornack flying the Pterodactyl Ascender II in a zoom Image PterodactylAscenderII 201.JPG thumb right An Ascender II 2 two seater. The powerplant is a Rotax ... Ascender II 2 Image DFEAscenderIIIC01.jpg thumb right Fly camping with a DFE Ascender III C two seater. Image DFEAscenderIIIC02.jpg thumb right Newly completed DFE Ascender III C prior to first flight, 2004 Image DFEAscenderIIIC03.jpg thumb right DFE Ascender III C in front of its hangar. The aircraft in the background is a Quad City Challenger II. The Pterodactyl Ascender is a family of United ... of 1,396 aircraft between 1979 and 1984 plus limited production today as the DFE Ascender III ... and Ascender to follow. ref name IPC ref name Ptimes2 1 Ptraveler McCornack had first ... covered his canard with the clear mylar. This experiment was a success. The handling of an Ascender ... 430D direct drive engine and was introduced in 1980 at a price of USD 3900. ref name Ptimes2 1 Ascender ... model was named the Ascender for its improved climb rate and also in tribute to the XP 55 Ascender , an early ... Ascender II The Ascender II was an improved Ascender with evolutionary changes incorporated. It had ... name IPC Psounder The Pterodactyl Psounder was a one of a kind Ascender II that was modified for an atmospheric ... of the Ascender II that was modified with a special rigid bridle to ensure that the tow rope stayed clear of the propeller. ref name IPC Ptiger By adding a fiberglass tub in place of the basic Ascender ..., the Ptiger conformed and became a legal Ultralight. Citation needed date January 2012 Ascender II The Ascender II was introduced in early 1982 and was aimed at the physically larger pilot. This redesigned ... cables. ref name IPC The Ascender II sold for USD 5260 in 1983. ref name IPC Ascender II 2 The Ascender ... the Ascender II 2 . There was no dual control installation, as both pilots had access to the single ... more details
Jumar redirects here. For the Brazilian footballer, see Jumar Jos da Costa J nior . An ascender is a mechanical device used for ascending on a rope. One such device is a Jumar, named after the Swiss factory which developed the first tool for sale in 1958. The device s name also leads to the term Jumaring for the process of using such a device. Other terms for this process include ascending, prusiking and jugging. ref name freedom cite book edition 7 editor Cox, Steven M. and Kris Fulsaas, ed. title Mountaineering The Freedom of the Hills publisher The Mountaineers isbn 0898868289 location Seattle year 2003 09 ref Image ClimbingAscenders.jpg thumb 250px Ascenders, left rigged for ascending, right shown open Ascenders offer similar functionality to friction hitch friction knot s, but are faster and easier to use, albeit with consequences in security as ascenders can, even with a locking carabiner, come off the rope, and fail by shredding the rope at high loads, rather than slipping and fusing as with friction knots . An ascender employs a cam which allows the device to slide freely in one direction usually the intended direction of movement , and provide a firm grip on the rope when pulled on in the opposite direction. To prevent an ascender from accidentally coming off the rope, a locking mechanism or trigger is deployed. The ascender is first attached to the climber s harness by a piece of webbing or sling, and then is clipped onto the rope and locked. For climbing on a fixed rope attached, for example, to snow anchors on a steep slope, only one ascender is used, keeping the other hand free for holding an ice axe . Jumaring, also referred to as jugging, is where the second ... in order to perform his work, so Marti developed the ascender for him. In 1958, the first jumar was introduced ... VerticalDevicesPage Ascender HandleEC.html This page archived gives an overview on the older ... rope ascender in 1968, and his company Petzl continues to produce both handled and handleless models ... more details
Image Typography Line Terms.svg thumb 390px The ascenders are the parts of minuscule characters that lie above the midline. In typography , an ascender is the portion of a Lower case minuscule grapheme letter in a Latin derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a typeface font . That is, the part of a lower case letter that is taller than the font s x height . Ascenders, together with descenders , increase the recognizability of words. For this reason, British road signs no longer use all capital letters . ref Cite book last Sampson first Geoffrey title Writing Systems A linguistic introduction pages 94 95 location Stanford, California publisher Stanford University Press year 1985 isbn 0804712549 ref Studies made at the start of the construction of the British motorway network concluded that mixed case letters were much easier to read than all caps and a special font was designed for motorway signs. These then became universal across the U.K. See Road signs in the United Kingdom . References reflist Typography terms Category Typography THIS IS NOT A STUB, BUT A SHORT ARTICLE. DO NOT ADD A STUB MESSAGE. ca Asta ascendent cs P smov osnova de Liniensystem Typografie es Asta ascendente it Tratto ascendente nl Stokletter sr sv verh ng zh ... more details
. ref Jenkins 2008. p. 8 ref Like the XP 54, the Ascender was initially designed for the Pratt & Whitney ... Field in Dayton, Ohio . ref Blazer 2008 ref Aircraft on display XP 55 Ascender, s n 42 78846 ...?id A19600289000 XP 55 Ascender 42 78846 National Air and Space Museum Retrieved 13 June 2011. ref Specifications XP 55 File Curtiss XP 55 Ascender 061024 F 1234P 006.jpg right thumb Curtis XP 55 Ascender side view. aircraft specifications if you do not understand how to use this template, please ... Page Curtiss XP 55 Ascender http www.joebaugher.com usaf fighters p55.html XP 55 Ascender http www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org ... lists Category Curtiss aircraft P 55 Ascender Category United States fighter aircraft 1940 1949 P 55 Ascender, Curtiss Category Single engined pusher aircraft Category Canard aircraft Category Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States cs Curtiss XP 55 Ascender de Curtiss Wright XP 55 es Curtiss Wright XP 55 Ascender it Curtiss Wright XP 55 ja XP 55 fi Curtiss Wright XP 55 Ascender pl Curtiss Wright XP 55 Ascender ... more details
Extender may refer to Ascender typography Ascender or descender , in typography and graphonomics DOS extender , a technology for bypassing the limitations of the DOS operating systems family KC 10 Extender , an air to air tanker aircraft Meat extenders Media extender Surimi , known as seafood extender Tele extender , a secondary lens for SLR cameras disambig de Extender ... more details
Infobox typeface name Andal Sans image AndaleSans.svg style Sans serif creationdate 1999 creator Steve Matteson foundry Monotype Corporation Monotype Imaging, Inc. Andal Sans usually appearing as Andale Sans is a proportional sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson to complement its monospaced counterpart, Andal Mono . ref name ascender cite web url http www.aascenderfonts.com font andale sans family 4 fonts.aspx title Andal Sans Font Family publisher Ascender Corporation accessdate 2011 12 28 ref Use Andal Sans is used in the high end, non smartphone devices produced by Sony Ericsson usually under the metadata name Sans Serif Europe or Universal . citation needed date December 2011 A variant of this typeface, Andal Sans UI, was used in the user interface of older versions of the StarOffice and OpenOffice.org until version 2.0 suites. ref cite web title what font does the OOo UI use? url http www.oooforum.org forum viewtopic.phtml?t 24010 publisher oooforum.org accessdate 29 December 2011 ref A Unicode version, Ascender Uni, comprising more than 50,000 glyphs is also available from Ascender Corporation. See also portal Typography Andal Mono References reflist typography stub Category Sans serif typefaces ... more details
DFE is a three letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below Adaptive equalizer Decision feedback equalizer , a routine for reducing errors in transmitting and storing computer data Department for Education and Skills United Kingdom Department for Education and Skills 2001 2007 and its successor the Department for Education , a British government department that was previously named Department for Education and Employment DePatie Freleng Enterprises 1963 1981 , a Hollywood based film animation production company Design Focused Evaluation , an approach to the evaluation of constructive alignment in educational designs. Design for Environment , the concept that product design must address the product s impact upon the environment Pterodactyl Ascender DFE Ascender 1979 1984 , an ultralight aircraft, later known as Pterodactyl Ascender Dilated fundus examination , an examination of the eye using dilation fluids to open the pupil Distribution of Fitness Effects Folate Dietary reference intake Dietary Folate Equivalent , a measure for the bioavailability of Folate Doctrine of foreign equivalents , a principle of US trade laws Double Faced Eels formed 1999 , a rock band from Latvia Canada Canadian hip hop group Dragon Fli Empire Dunfermline Town railway station , Scotland National Rail station code DFE draft and follow Draft Follow and Evaluate a practice of Major League Baseball organizations disambig fr DFE ... more details
File Petzl croll.JPG thumb 400px A Petzl Croll with the gate closed, open and with a rope locked in place. A petzl croll is an Ascender climbing ascending device ref http www.petzl.com en outdoor ascenders 0 croll Petzl Sport Croll Chest Ascender ref used in caving and industrial rope access made by the French company Petzl . Its name comes from the town Crolles where Petzl s company headquarters are located but might also be a reference to the nearby cave system of the Dent de Crolles , the exploration of which triggered a lot of technical effort leading to innovation in caving equipment. Usage The Croll is normally used in the chest position and in conjunction with an upper ascender or Jumar . This configuration allows a climber, caver or rope access worker to rapidly ascend a rope. History In 1968 Bruno Dressler asked Fernand Petzl , who worked as a metals machinist, to build a rope ascending tool, today known as the Petzl Croll, that he had developed by adapting the Jumar to the specificity of pit caving. Following these developments, Fernand Petzl started in the 1970s a small caving equipment manufacturing company Petzl . Standards EN 567 ref name autogenerated1 http www.petzl.com files all technical notice Sport B16 CROLL B165000J.pdf ref This standard allows the Croll to be used by Industrial Rope Access Trade Association IRATA qualified technicians. EN 12841 ref name autogenerated1 CE 0197 ref name autogenerated1 References reflist Category Climbing equipment Category Caving equipment pl Kroll sprz t sportowy ... more details
wikt ascend Ascend may refer to Ascend band Ascend , an experimental doom metal band. Ascend album Ascend album , by Greg Howe ASCEND , mathematical modelling simulation software Ascend Communications Huawei Ascend , a series of Android operating system based smartphones manufactured by Huawei See also Ascent disambiguation Ascension disambiguation Ascender disambiguation Ascendency in ecology Ascendant , in astrology Ascendancy disambiguation disamb fr Ascendance ... more details
developed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corp. as Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif. A variant of this font .... Liberation Sans and Liberation Serif derive from Ascender Sans and Ascender Serif respectively Liberation Mono uses base designs from Ascender Sans and Ascender Uni Duo . In April 2010, Oracle Corporation ... Distribution Red Hat licensed these fonts from Ascender Corporation Ascender Corp under the GNU General ... fonts contributed by Ascender. These include a dotted zero and various changes made for the benefit ... more details
Wiktionary ascendancy The Protestant Ascendancy , usually known simply as the Ascendancy , was a class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century. Ascendancy may also refer to Ascendancy album Ascendancy album , 2005, by Trivium Ascendancy computer game Ascendancy computer game Ascendancy film Ascendancy film Ascendency , sometimes spelled ascendancy , a quantitative attribute of an ecosystem. See also Ascend disambiguation Ascender disambiguation disamb es Ascendencia it Ascendancy ru Ascendancy ... more details
Pterodactyl can mean Pterodactylus , a genus of pterosaur and the only member of the family Pterodactylidae Members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea incorrectly in popular media Pterosaur s, an order of extinct flying reptiles Pterodactyl film Pterodactyl film , a horror film Westland Hill Pterodactyl , a series of experimental aircraft designs starting in the 1920s Pterodactyl Ascender , a family of U.S. designed and built ultralight aircraft that were sold in kit form between 1979 and 1984. disambig ... more details
about the geological meaning of lineation Lineation geology the textual meaning of lineation Line break poetry Unreferenced date December 2009 In Western handwriting , the base line , the x height or corpus size , the height of the Ascender typography ascenders and the bottom line of the descender s make up four horizontal virtual lines which represent the lineation of handwriting. In many teaching methods of writing at primary school, these guidelines are actually present on paper to aid the child in producing well formed characters of the proper size. In adulthood the lineation remains, virtually, and can be used in handwriting recognition by performing an analysis of the horizontal density of minima and maxima of the writing trace. The density at the base line of handwriting will be highest, followed by the density of the corpus size . As Ascender typography ascenders and descender s occur only infrequently, their densities will be low, especially if a single word is considered. See also graphonomics Category Penmanship ... more details
Infobox font name Cochin style Serif image classifications Transitional serif Transitional ref name adobe1 cite web url http store1.adobe.com cfusion store html index.cfm?store OLS US&event displayFont&code CCHQ10005000 title Cochin Std Roman publisher Adobe date 2012 02 14 accessdate 2012 03 19 ref releasedate aka Sonderdruck creator Georges Peignot, Matthew Carter foundry Deberny & Peignot br Mergenthaler Linotype Company Linotype Cochin is a Transitional serif transitional serif typeface. It was originally produced in 1912 by Georges Peignot for the Paris foundry Deberny & Peignot and was based on the copperplate engravings of French artist Nicolas Cochin , from which the typeface also takes its name. In 1977 Cochin was adapted and expanded by Matthew Carter for Mergenthaler Linotype Company Linotype . The font has a small x height with long Ascender typography ascender s. ref name adobe1 References reflist typ stub Category Typefaces ... more details
Technologies , ref http www.ascendercorp.com portfolio custom.html Agilent Ascender Portfolio Custom ... MS Corp Ascender Portfolio Custom Fonts Bot generated title ref Matteson s mono spaced font ... partner and Director of Type Design at Ascender Corporation in Elk Grove Village , Illinois. ref http ... Zune Ascender Portfolio Custom Fonts Bot generated title ref In 2007 software maker Red Hat released ... Handset Alliance . Fonts designed by Steve Matteson col begin col 4 Andale Mono Andy Bold Arimo Ascender Sans Ascender Sans Bold Ascender Serif Ascender Serif Bold Ayita Ayita Bold Binner Gothic Blueprint ... Century Poster Fonts col end See also Ascender Corporation Droid font Droid fonts Liberation fonts ... more details
Matteson of Ascender Corporation . The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform name ... pr 2007 11 12 Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance s Android platform ref Droid Pro 2009 In 12 February 2009, Ascender Corporation announced the retail version of the Droid ... and new Droid Pro fonts announced by Ascender ref The fonts were sold in OpenType and TrueType font ... 01, it is a condensed version of Droid Sans Pro designed by Ascender Corp s Steve Matteson to be compatible ... with Ascender Corporation, with Arabic letters designed by Pascal Zoghbi and Latin letters designed by Steve Matteson from Ascender. Designed to complement the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic provided ... http www.droidfonts.com Ascender Corporation Droid font page 29arabicletters page http www.29arabicletters.com ... more details
involves the Ascender airship Ascender , the Dark Sky Station airship Dark Sky Station , and the Orbital Ascender airship Orbital Ascender . ref name ato JP Aerospace http www.jpaerospace.com atohandout.pdf Airship to Orbit Handout . Airship to Orbit Cheap, Bulk, Safe Access to Space ref Ascender The Ascender ..., the Ascender 90 and the Ascender 175. The number denotes the length of the airship, in feet. The final ... between the Ascender stage and the orbital stage. Additionally it would function as a permanent ... construction. Due to the design of the Orbital Ascender around the orbital environment, it would be constructed at the station. ref name ato Orbital Ascender The final flight phase would travel from the station to orbit using the Orbital Ascender airship. ref name ieee David Kushner, http www.spectrum.ieee.org ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The GMT 360 debuted in 2002 with the Chevrolet TrailBlazer , GMC Envoy , and Oldsmobile Bravada , as the next generation S T mid size Sport utility vehicle SUV s. While it replaced the GMT 330, it shared nothing with the older platform. It used hydroformed frame rails like the larger GMT 800, and was built for GM s GM Atlas engine Atlas inline engines. The GMT 360 and the long wheelbase GMT 370 went on to be one of the most Badge engineering rebadged GM products with six different marque s represented. The 360 uses an independent suspension in front. In the rear, the Isuzu Ascender Ascender and Chevrolet TrailBlazer TrailBlazer and some GMC Envoy Envoy s use a multilink suspension 5 link rear suspension , while the rest have an air suspension . A 4 speed automatic transmission automatic is the only transmission available. This line will be replaced in 2009, however, with crossover vehicles based on a stretched version of the GM Theta platform Theta Premium TE Theta Premium architecture. The GMT 361 replacement program has been cancelled at this point. But, according to the GM Fleet website, the Chevrolet TrailBlazer , GMC Envoy , and Saab 9 7X will remain in production for the 2009 model year. Production ended late December 2008. Applications GMT 305 2004 2005 GMC Envoy XUV GMT 360 2002 2009 Chevrolet TrailBlazer 2002 2009 GMC Envoy 2002 2004 Oldsmobile Bravada 2003 2007 Isuzu Ascender 2004 2007 Buick Rainier 2005 2009 Saab 9 7X GMT 368 2003 2006 Chevrolet SSR GMT 370 2002 2006 Chevrolet TrailBlazer EXT 2002 2006 GMC Envoy XL gallery Image GMC Envoy XL.jpg GMC Envoy XL Image Chevrolet TrailBlazer.JPG Chevrolet TrailBlazer Image 2006 Saab 9 7X blue.jpg 2006 Saab 9 7X gallery See also GM GMT platform General Motors platforms DEFAULTSORT Gmt360 Category GM platforms ... more details
unreferenced date September 2011 wiktionarypar that those for the Hindustani musical modal system That music The word that is used in the English language for several grammar grammatical purposes to introduce a Restrictiveness restrictive relative clause She took the test that was hard. as a demonstrative pronoun That was hard. as a demonstrative adjective That test was hard. as a complementizer subordinating conjunction . He asked that she go. as an adverb The test wasn t that bad. In the Old English language that was spelled t . It was also abbreviated as a letter Thorn, , with the ascender crossed, Image OE thaet.png . In Middle English the letter Ash, , was replaced with the letter a , so that that was spelled at , or sometimes et . The ascender of the was reduced making it similar to the Old English letter Wynn , Unicode , which necessitated writing a small t above the letter to abbreviate the word that Image ME that.png . In later Middle English and Early Modern English the evolved into a y shape, so that the word was spelled yat although the spelling with a th replacing the was starting to become more popular and the abbreviation for that was a y with a small t above it Image EME that.png . This abbreviation can still be seen in reprints of the 1611 edition of the King James Version of the Bible in places such as 2 Corinthians 13 7. Category English pronouns ling stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 See graphonomics Allograph handwriting Angular frequency Ascender typography Ascender Ballistic stroke Base line Connecting stroke Cursive script Curvature Curve Delayed stroke Derivative Descender Digitizer Direction handwriting Transwiki d to Wiktionary Domain graphonomics Extender Force Fourier spectrum, Power spectral density function Frequency Function mathematics Graph handwriting Grapheme Guirland Handwriting is not composition of text See Writing Horizontal progression Ink trace Ligature Movement parameter Pattern handwriting Pen lift Phase waves Pen pressure axial pen force Sample signal processing Segment handwriting Slant handwriting Upward stroke x Height or Body size handwriting Body size or Corpus size Aspect ratio image Pitch handwriting Roundness handwriting See Phase waves Lineation Rotation movement context in handwriting Orientation Pen tilt Stroke handwriting Trajectory Penup Transwiki d to Wiktionary Pen tip velocity, Pen tip velocity was Transwiki d to Wiktionary velocity Simulated Handwriting generation Simulated Handwriting regeneration Fluency handwriting Sloppiness space Smoothing , Low pass filter Polar distribution Running angle DEFAULTSORT Terminology In Graphonomics Category Penmanship ... more details
Infobox font name image style Serif classifications releasedate 1839 creator Samuel Nelson Dickinson foundry Alexander Wilson and Son based on aka Scotch Roman refers to a class of typeface s popular in the early nineteenth century, particularly in the United States and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom. These typefaces were modeled on an original 1839 design by Samuel Nelson Dickinson, founder of the Dickinson Type Foundry in Boston, who had the design cut by Richard Austin punchcutter Richard Austin , and cast by Alexander Wilson and Son in Glasgow, Scotland. ref http typefoundry.blogspot.com 2007 02 scotch roman.html Essay on Scotch Roman typefaces ref The name of the font family is derived from the location of the font foundry. Scotch Roman typefaces are a serif font, suitable for both body text and large text such as headings. Theodore Low De Vinne De Vinne described Scotch Roman as a small, neat, round letter, with long ascender typography ascender s, and not noticeably condensed or compressed. ref Theodore Low De Vinne De Vinne, Theodore Low . Plain Printing Types. Oswald Publishing Company, New York, 1914. ref These typefaces were extremely influential on many modern typefaces, including Caledonia typeface Caledonia , Georgia, and Escrow commissioned by the Wall Street Journal ref http www.fontbureau.com fonts Escrow Font Bureau description of Escrow typeface ref . References reflist Category Serif typefaces Category letterpress typefaces Category photocomposition typefaces Category virtual typefaces ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 infobox IPA ipa symbol imagefile Epiglottal flap.svg ipa number 173 432 decimal1 673 decimal2 815 An epiglottal flap is not known to exist as a phoneme in any language. However, it exists as a voiced consonant voiced allophone of the voiceless epiglottal plosive IPA , found between vowels in Dahalo language Dahalo and perhaps other languages. There is no dedicated symbol for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA , but it can be transcribed by adding a short or Semivowel non syllabic diacritic to the symbol for the plosive, IPA . The diacritic is here placed under rather than above the letter to avoid the ascender. IPA navigation DEFAULTSORT Epiglottal Flap Category Epiglottal consonants Phonetics stub br Kensonenn ankoue dre stlakat fr Consonne battue piglottale vois e nl Epiglottale flap ... more details
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