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Re: PDF and Unicode (was: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why Triggers?))

From:D Tse <exponent@...>
Date:Friday, October 26, 2001, 23:00
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Yes; the gamma of course has no loop at the bottom, looks more like
a "y";
and IIRC ram's horns had little bars, or serifs, on the top of the
upper
arms....

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What happened was that in the previous edition of the IPA, tiny gamma and gamma were essentially small caps and normal versions of each other, and to clear up the difference, tiny gamma became rams' horns: the difference between these two is that tiny gamma has serifs on each "horn" whereas rams' horns just curls downwards, like its name implies. Imperative