From it were derived three scripts better suited to handwriting: uncial, which was essentially the classical capitals adapted to writing with pen on paper and similar to hand printing; and cursive and minuscule, which were running scripts similar to modern handwriting forms, with joined letters and considerable modification in letter shape.
Some have adapted to writing notes on PDAs like those from Palm or Hewlett-Packard, but there's little better for fast scrawling than an old-fashioned pen and paper.
But beginning about the 6th century, the Chinese script was adapted to write Korean.
Perhaps because of this association with a single powerful state, its language, and its culture, Egyptian writing was seldom adapted to write other languages; in this it contrasts with the cuneiform script of the relatively uncentralized, multilingual Mesopotamia.
It is those A.P.I.'s that other software publishers must adapt to in writing programs for use on Windows machines.
"She had an electric presence, and an ability to adapt to any audience," writes the author Peter Burrows, a department editor at Business Week magazine.
"It is a sad reality that while the world's most vulnerable countries have contributed the least to climate change, they are most at risk from its negative effects and the least equipped to withstand and adapt to it," Acharya writes.
"Legislating on this subject could very well result in rules that unnecessarily constrain law enforcement officials and hinder their ability to adapt to unforeseen situations," wrote former FBI agents Jack Cloonan, Joe Navarro and Jim Clement.
Some non-native authors began to adapt to and started to write about Hong Kong.
If Byrne's vocal harmonies were radical enough, Eno would revise the instrumentation to accompany it, but Byrne avoided writing instrumentation and chose to adapt to the instrumentals as written.
