>As Lindiga phonology evolves, I'm starting to think that I should
>distinguish between voiced and voiceless consonants. The problem is that
>the trick of using commas instead of dots under the consonants won't work
>for the new letters that represent voiced sounds. There aren't any
>precomposed "d" and "z" with commas or cedillas, and the combining
>comma/cedilla diacritics don't exist in Times New Roman. Fortunately, it
>_does_ have the combining dot below, but of course it doesn't line up
>properly.
>
>So I made a test page.
>
>
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Lindiga/test.html
>
>This page contains samples of characters with separate dots and precomposed
>characters (for all except the slashed L, since Unicode doesn't have a
>precomposed "l with stroke and dot below" character), with the default font
>and also with the Thryomanes font. All of these are readable in Mozilla 1.1
>(Windows XP), although the dots in the first sample aren't lined up
>properly. Internet Explorer 6.0 can't display the precomposed characters if
>the default font doesn't have them, but both versions of the Thryomanes
>test display correctly. If the Thryomanes font isn't installed, only the
>version with separate dots is readable.
>
>I'm thinking of using the third sample -- characters with separate dots,
>and the Thryomanes font -- since that version seems to work best in the
>configurations that I've tested. If anyone wants to test the page with
>different browsers, default browser fonts, or operating systems, let me
>know of any problems that come up.
Only set #2 showed up as boxes, otherwise OK. No surprise -- I downloaded
Thryomanes some time ago and use IE4/W95, with Lucida Sans Unicode as the
default for UTF-8. Of course, the dots are almost invisible, like almost
any diacritic in almost any font.
Jeff
>If you don't have the Thryomanes font, you can download it from:
>
>ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/fonts/Thryomanes11.zip
>
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