ENTER the realm of the alphabet and, beyond the rote mumbling of the ABC or the careful construction of keys to forgotten languages, lies a fascinating tangle of symbolism and significance. Johanna Drucker鈥檚 The Alphabetic Labyrinth (Thames and Hudson, pp 320, 拢29.95) unravels the tangle to the advantage of the curious reader as she travels across the centuries from Greek philosophy to computer typography in the age of electronic media.
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