diacritics [was: Latin-alphabet trans' systems]

>B.Phip B.Philicitated;
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>As you know I like diacritics because they allow for uniform
>modifications far better than prostheticized letters do.
Barbara blithers;
I must confess I've the same attraction to diacritics. Most of my invented
scripts use them extensively, for purposes not usually found in natscripts.
For example diacritics to indicated voicing, initial/medial-syllabic (CV
form), and final-syllabic (VC form).

I'd best explain the latter ;-). It grew from back-engineering a script to
an early form where word-breaks didn't exist. The solution to the word
division problem devised was for every letter to have a form to indicated
the end of a syllable/word, ie a "final" as well as an initial/medial form.
As with some ancient scripts a letter could have the value of a phoneme or
its name so a diacritic was devised to clarify if a letter was intended to
be read as a phonemic or a  syllabic.

Anyone else out there using diacritics in an unusual way? I'd really like to
hear about them if you do ;-)

Barbara