Re: [wEr\ Ar\ ju: fr6m] ?
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 12, 2001, 2:02 |
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > You do, however, want good ligatures for connecting "modifier
> > letters" such as the rhotic hook and "combining diacritics" such as
> > the voiceless ring below to letters. At least, if you want them
> > properly placed. Good typography demandeth it. ;p
Yeah... I forgot about all that stuff. Thinking about ligating 'ffi' and
such.
> 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_"? And also, when putting a diacritic above a j or i,
does the dot disappear, as in conventional typography?
Tristan
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