Acrography

Meanwhile, we may observe that the most extraordinary example of acrography is a medallion of Addinos, engraved in a similar style to that of Collas's priest, and not distinguishable from its productions except by the liars being imperfect.

In wood engraving every line is forced along its direction, and the very awkwardness of the operation ultimately gives an authority to the printed line. In acrography this was not so.

Thirty years later some prints made by a new process, "acrography, " were greeted by an editor with the remark, "Only one of half a hundred experiments which have been submitted to us in tangible form."

How, then, do bibliographers and historians find out about the technologies of exotic illustrative processes like acrography, butterfly-wing printing, gypsography, selenotype and the "Via sicca" process?

A characteristic of the Ebla scientific lists, to which Chapter VIII will be dedicated, is the redaction according to the principle of acrography, which orders the entries on the basis of the initial formative elements, a principle adopted many centuries later in Mesopotamia.

The sign lists from Fara (WVDOG 43 7 and 69) show an structure unrelated both to VE and to the OB lists, their acrography is less strict.

The four tones of Mandarin Chinese are often referred to conveniently in discourse by the numbers 1 to 4, and capital letters have been recruited to denote tones by acrography (H for high, M for mid, L for low, etc.), for example in ToBI notation (Tone and Break Indices; see Beckman and Ayers 1994), X-SAMPA notation (Extended Speech Assessment Methods Phonetic Alphabet; see Wells 1995b; and see Section 3.4.10 below) and INTSINT notation (International Transcription System for Intonation; see Hirst 2004).

The list is organized around logograms, applying acrography, telography, and varying positions of a glyph (often also including “related” glyphs);