Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?

> Date:         Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:02:53 +1100
> From: Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
>
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > There's also the little remark on the IPA chart that diacritics
> > should go above characters with descenders. I was just skimming
> > the OpenType spec earlier tonight, and that's something you'd be
> > able to specify as a context-dependent glyph replacement. But if
> > anything out there would actually use the info, I don't know.
> > PageMaker, perhaps.
>
> Which has always lead me to wonder: how does one tell the difference
> between y_k and y_"?
That one's easy... but y_t and y_" could be a problem, or y_k and y~.
And if you're using diacritics for tones, y_- and y_M conflict too.

In all these cases, however, one of the diacritics only makes sense
for vowels --- and the mark is wide enough that it would be visible
under a y. (y happens to be the only vowel symbol with a descender,
and none of them have ascenders).

The problem is the little diacritics that can easily be mistaken for
fly specks in the first place. j= could be a problem, for instance.

> And also, when putting a diacritic above a j or i, does the dot
> disappear, as in conventional typography?
Presumably, if your font technology is up to it --- it's the same
thing, put in a conditional glyph replacement. For some reason, J\
doesn't have a dot, so it's only a problem for i, j, and j\ --- and
if a font has anything like that, it will have it for i~ and i_".

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)