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

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> [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU]Namens D Tse
> Verzonden: vrijdag 26 oktober 2001 6:08
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> Onderwerp: Re: PDF and Unicode (was: Boreanesian in the Web (was: Why
> Triggers?))
>
>
> Quite good, except one minor minor thing caught my eye...
>
> The symbol for unrounded back (what books used to call "baby gamma"
> and now "Rams' horns") looks exactly like the symbol for voiced velar
> fricative, and the symbol for that has been replaced with ... a greek
> gamma...
>
> 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.
>
> I think it's just the font you're using...

It might, or I might ahve mixed something up myself. I'll look into it. Even
though the point of my exercise was to show the benefits of PDF, I should at
least make my chart correct :-)

Maarten van Beek