Old Italic refers to several now extinct alphabet systems used on the Italian Peninsula in ancient times for various Indo-European languages (predominantly Italic) and non-Indo-European (e.g. Etruscan) languages. The alphabets derive from the Euboean Greek Cumaean alphabet, used at Ischia and Cumae in the Bay of Naples in the eighth century BC.
Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sebellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.
The Germanic runic alphabet was most likely derived from one of these alphabets in about the 2nd century.[citation needed]
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Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:55:28 GM
A math display program uses different . italic. characters (the math . alphabetic. in the range U+1D400..U+1D7FF) from the ones Wendell refers to and the Cambria-Math math . italic. lc nu is quite distinct from the math . italic. lc v. . ... I know this an . old. thread, but XeTeX did add Unicode Math support, although it's still considered experimental. I don't have Office 2007 for a side-by-side comparison, but using the Cambria Math landed on my laptop by Expression Suite (should ...
