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

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>On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
>> But there's a bug in Yudit's placement of combining diacritics, so I'm
>> going to hack on that first. And it doesn't do 'shaping' yet, which I
>> guess is selection of alternate glyphs in Arabic, conjuncts in Indic
>> --- and ligatures in roman-based scripts like IPA.
>
>Should you really use ligatures in the IPA? I thought, given one glyph was
>supposed to equal one sound, you shouldn't. Isn't that the whole
>philosophy behind only using script g and not text g?
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

     *Muke!

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