Re: Latin mxedruli, or do we really need capital and small letters?

Danny Wier scripsit:

> I made a mistake in my original post on this topic, by the way - Georgian in
> _mxedruli_ script does have capitals, called _mtavruli_; those are only used
> in headlines and emphasized text and the letters are all capital-size, with
> no descenders. They remind me of those old A26-inspired fonts.
Thus spake Michael Everson at http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2608r2.pdf :

	The mtavruli titling style of Mkhedruli (Figure 4) is not case;
	it is a style analogous to small caps or bold or italic. In
	this style, the distinction between letters with ascenders and
	descenders is not maintained, but all letters appear with an
	equal height standing on the baseline.	Mtavruli-style letters are
	never used as 'capitals'; a word is always entirely presented
	in mtavruli or not.  Mtavruli-style is used in titles, newspaper
	headlines, and other kinds of headings. It might be suggested that
	non-plain text SMALL CAPS coding be used to represent Mkhedruli
	in mtavruli-style. (There is no other such small caps category
	that could be applied to Mkhedruli.)

The next version of Unicode will feature a full separation of ecclesiastical
Georgian (with codes for the upper-case and lower-case letters) from mxedruli.
Currently mxedruli and lower-case ecclesiastical forms are unified; this is
now considered to have been an error.

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