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Darko Zubrinic (hobbies)
- folk guitar, author of the guitar manual
"Gitara za radoznalce", Zagreb, 1989.
- mountains: visited many Croatian mountains (with probably the most
interesting mountain in Europe - Velebit), mountains of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia (Kosovo region),
Macedonia, Slovenia, Austria,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, France (Mont Blanc), Greece (Crete
- Ida, Lefke Ori, Pahnes),
Caucasus in the former USSR - including 20 days in Grozny,
Chechenia and Ingushetia, 1988 (in Croatian).
- history of the Croatian
Glagolitic Script, author of the manual "Hrvatska
glagoljica", HKD sv. Jeronim, Zagreb, (416 p),
enlarged second edition,
(March 1996); ISBN
953-6111-35-7 (Drustvo sv. Jeronima), ISBN 953-6098-38-5
(Element).
Anyone wishing to get acquainted with the Croatian Glagolitic
and Cyrillic Script can obtain my
TeX and
METAFONT files:
- glagolitic (angular, round, cursive, a font with letters like on the Baska tablet, 60
exotic ligatures),
- Croatian Cyrillic,
- also stechak
ornaments and
- Croatian wattle
patterns.
Some familiarity with TeX and
METAFONT is needed. Basic information about
the Croatian Glagolitic can be seen
in my papers in TUGboat:
- The Exotic Croatian Glagolitic Script, Washington,
Vol 13, No 4, p. 470-471 (December 92),
- Croatian fonts
(pdf), TUGboat, Vol 17, No 1, March 1996.
ince 1993 secretary of the Scripturae
Glagoliticae Amicorum
Societas (in Croatian), and since 2000 president of the
society. Member of the editorial board of
Basschina (roughly - Heritage, Homeland;
six issues appeared till now), devoted to
popularizing the Croatian Glagolitic Script.
Witnessed a vary rare natural phenomenon - the WHOLE
CIRCLE RAINBOW. It had very sharp edges, extremely intense
colours and - a cross in the middle, with two human
silhouettes on both sides. These were the shadows of a metal
cross
(about 5m high, on the top of the mountain
Königstuhl in Austria, above 2000m)
and of our bodies, "projected" onto a
film of mist in a late afternoon.
darko.zubrinicZZ@ZZfer.hr (remove Z's)
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