Re: Eng (was: Name mangling)

On 15 Mar 2005, at 9.47 am, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> "Tristan McLeay" <conlang@...> wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I don't think it's fair to say that a particular glyph
>> form
>> is wrong, unless all the people who use the character dislike the
>> form.
>> Capital Eng is not defined by any script which mandates particular
>> glyph styles, unlike lowercase eng. Even if it were, no-one thinks
>> it's
>> wrong that there's two possible glyphs for g, but the IPA says only
>> one
>> form is correct. The enlarged eng form is commonly used, is not
>> confuseable for some other symbol
>
> The "incomplete D" is confused with U+E014 TENGWAR LETTER OORE
> http://www.evertype.com/standards/csur/tengwar.html
Because Tengwar letter Oore is mixed in with Latin letters on ooh, a
daily basis. Anyway, whenever I've seen Tengwar and Latin intermixed
the Tengwar's been about the height of lowercase letters.

> At least uppercase thorn is good for sticking out your e-tongue
> symmetrically :-Þ .
I find lowercase thorn does the trick better, it aligns with the dots
of the colon.

--
Tristan.