Re: Double Macrons on gh...

2002-08-31 Thread William Overington
Kenneth Whistler wrote as follows. In practice, fonts might simply choose to have ligatures for the entire sequence, to avoid complications of calculating the accent positions dynamically. For more examples, just look in dictionary pronunciation guides. --Ken An interesting problem which may

Re: Double Macrons on gh...

2002-08-31 Thread Michael Everson
At 10:33 +0100 2002-08-31, William Overington wrote: An interesting problem which may arise is that the Unicode Consortium will not be specifying particular ligatures to include in fonts That isn't its job. You're right that guidance to what precomposed glyphs are useful is necessary. But it

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-31 Thread William Overington
Edward H Trager wrote as follows. ... I was also thinking about the issue of how do you get the highly qualified designers interested in such a project? In answer to the specific question. One might consider the possibility of offering them a fee-paid assessment of a portfolio of their work

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-31 Thread Doug Ewell
Curtis Clark jcclark at mockfont dot net wrote: Until I converted Jarkko's text, I wondered if he wasn't trying to make a Unicode form of rot13, so that readers could choose not to be offended. Torsten, when will Unipad support converting the U+ format? U+ is the standard way to

Re: Revised proposal for Missing character glyph

2002-08-31 Thread Doug Ewell
Peter_Constable at sil dot org wrote: Something that wouldn't be difficult would be an item that copied data to the clipboard, and then displayed character info based on the clipboard content. Hmm, an interesting thought. I would be willing to write a mini-tool like this, if enough people