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

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> [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]Namens Roger Mills
> Verzonden: vrijdag 26 oktober 2001 17:44
> Aan: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: PDF and Unicode (was: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why
> Triggers?))
>
> D. Tse wrote:
>
> >In every book I've seen, and even in the old IPA charts, the
> >difference is that baby gamma/rams horns is the same size as a small
> >caps character, whereas the gamma symbol takes up the descender space.
>
> 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....
Yes, this was an error. It has been fixed, and the original file has been
replaced by the corrected one.

> Also, unless I missed it, there was no SAMPA symbol given for _unround u_,
> which is M according to what we've been using here (we may be mixing
> systems)
I used the following site for IPA-SAMPA translation:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/ascii-ipa.html

It didn't show a SAMPA translation for the close back unrounded vowel
(double u). If the general community here can confirm that M is the commonly
used 7-bit character for this IPA letter, I will include it.

> Otherwise a useful chart-- thank you Maarten.  (It takes longer
> to load than
> the average web-page, and one has to use the up/down arrows for jumpy
> scrolling, but other than that........)
Thanks. I have a mouse with a scroll button in the middle. I think the
inventor should be granted a Nobel prize for it :-)

And my PDF viewer allows me to drag-scroll as well, with the little hand
symbol.... not jumpy at all, very smoothly. It takes a little more time to
load than HTML, but if you include 100 small GIFs of various characters, it
will be just as long to load, I think.

And in the end, it is free to use anyway: if you like it, do so, if you
don't, just leave it where it is. That's the beauty of the internet!

Thanks for the encouragement and positive criticism.

Maarten van Beek

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