Re: mu for [N]

Henrik Theiling wrote:

 > First of all, I don't like using non-letter symbols for phonemes
 > because I don't like the look of words with symbols.  They have no
 > upper case (|µ| also doesn't, hmm...) and they seem to -- hmmm --
 > destroy the look of words.  Very subjective thingy, of course.
 > I even do not like apostrophes inside words.

Depending on how well you can define which font you are using
(which ought to be easier in a PDF-file than in an HTML-file,
for example), you could select a font that has "lowercase numbers"
(is this a well-known term? I mean the numbers where 3,4,5,7 and 9
extend below the line, 6 and 8 above it, and 0, 1 and 2 are exactly
the line height). These go together very well with lowercase letters
in one word, IMHO.

I've put a small example online, and even though it is just a
nonsense-word, you can see that the numbers fit in with the letters
really well: http://www.ewoudnet.nl/ruittenb/lowercase_numbers.jpg
(This example uses the Berling Antiqua font).

René

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