Timeline for Uppercase Point Labels in High-School Diagrams: from Euclid?
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| Jun 20, 2010 at 0:01 | comment | added | TonyK | My point was that you don't have to go back to when lowercase didn't exist. You only have to go back to when books were hand-written, with no special typefaces to distinguish symbols from text. And this applies to Latin and French too. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 18:53 | comment | added | Willie Wong | Now, your argument would be much more probable in the renaissance, except then the language of choice would most likely be Latin or French. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 18:51 | comment | added | Willie Wong | Uh, I thought one of the points Joseph raised was that, at the time of Euclid, there were no such thing as minuscule script: when everything was written in majuscule, I doubt using them will make diagram labels stand out. Medieval scribes who copied manuscripts would likely have used the Greek uncial script, which is still "all-caps". Also, making the text easier to follow is probably one of the things furthest from the minds of those scribes: have you seen one of those illuminated Latin manuscripts? No punctuation or inter-word spacing, with liberal doses of abbreviations they had. | |
| Jun 19, 2010 at 18:06 | history | answered | TonyK | CC BY-SA 2.5 |