Talk:Theban alphabet

message: never was missing... Sabastianblak (talk) 01:32, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of these Resnaissance scripts were based on the basic Latin alphabet of the time ABCDEFGHIKLMNOPQRSTVXYZ... AnonMoos (talk) 03:54, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  the W is there, people ...it is after the Z... 

message: In  archived subtopic "Which 'Theban alphabet' are we discussing anyway?", I noted that the chart of large SVG characters in Theban alphabet#Characters was a modern script and computer font, with changes from preceding (non-computer) Theban scripts that had me "... thinking it is a Wiccan's adaptation, thus a post-1950s (i.e. 'modern' in every sense) script. Not quite 'proof' but perhaps suggestive to other eyes once pointed out." It turns out to be a TTF named "ThebanBW100", marked "© Ben Whitmore 1998" in its "Copyright" tag, available free from wFonts, with eight other brief names listed in its "Trademark" tag.</p>It happens that a "Ben Whitmore" is also shown as the author of the book —  — Again this is not quite "proof" but perhaps suggestive.The SVG characters in the chart are marked "Own work, created in Inkscape using a freeware font I created in 1998" by , whose userpage says he says he's "Ben, an occultist" [among other things] who has "written a book-length critique on the subject of the history of European witchcraft"; on his talkpage he mentions "my various experiences in Wicca". I think that tends to support my earlier conclusions. – •Raven  .talk 04:08, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the section in question per your comments. Nosferattus (talk) 03:14, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Computer font identified 

message: The original 1518 Polygraphia version of Theban ends with W, as do the 1600/1613 reprints — though the latter close loops left open in the original. The 1561 French translation, Polygraphie by Gabriel de Collange, changes that last sign to an ampersand (W being a new letter unused by the French). 1801's The Magus by Francis Barrett adds the "w" as a small-omega "ω" below that sign, and it becomes an end-of-sentence mark... leaving the letter "W" to be represented by a Theban double-V "VV". The simplest way to tell about all the character changes over time is to show them, so I think those charts should be stacked along the right-hand side. I've started doing that, and one more chart is on commons.wikimedia, awaiting trans-wiki to Wikipedia. Thanks to  for the great detective work, besides providing me with a 1518 chart to clean up and post. – •Raven  .talk 10:58, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theban letter shapes (and referents) change from time to time 

message: Since readers of this article may quite possibly want one or more fonts of the Theban alphabet, and they can find numerous websites offering usually the same one or more containing only the Agrippa/Barrett alphabet, I've added links to two rarely marketed fonts I thought useful: (1) based on Trithemius 1518, (2) based on Agrippa/Barrett with added [original] symbols for punctuation, numbers, etc.; those who don't want to use the extra symbols can skip them. – •Raven  .talk 00:12, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added (just) two fonts to "External links"