RE: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

In the subtitle where “atvīkė̄” occurs, the Verdana font is being used; Verdana is left out of the styling on the following line: Svēkė atvīkė̄ i Vikipedėjė žemaitiu kalbuo, encikluopedėjė, katra gal redagoutė kuožnos nuorontis. Verdana does not support U+0304. Arial, however has supported it

RE: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

Gy. Dobner asked: > But my original question was not how to encode a combining macron in one > more possible way but how to encode a length mark that would display as > something _visually_ _distinguishable_ _from_ _a_ _macron_ (because the > macron is functionally ambiguous and hence unsuitable f

Re: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

If you are looking for something that is visually distinguishable from a macron, and not the same code point sequence internally, why not use a different character? Maybe: U+0305 ( ̅ ) COMBINING OVERLINE or one of the other 1,199 combining m

RE: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:41:13 -0400 David Starner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Győző Dobner > wrote: > > Actually, it would be even better to have something like a > > COMBINING PHONEME LENGTH MARK that can be used with both > > vowels and consonants in any script or language whatsoe

Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

> "GD" == Győző Dobner writes: GD> I use Linux, and the last time I looked, xkb (the default keyboard GD> driver of X11, which is the default graphical interface used in most GD> Linuxes) did not seem to support generating several characters/code GD> points for a single keystroke (to my great

Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

Am Mittwoch, 27. Oktober 2010 um 17:49 schrieb Doug Ewell: DE> Otto Stolz wrote: >> Pentzlin’s driver can generate almost any conceivable character (or >> character sequence, respectively), if only it is used in a Latin-based >> writing system. However, Pentzlin’s driver is mnemotechnically based

Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

Hello, by way of example, I had written: Examples (from the keyboard driver I am currently using): key “E” generates single character “e”; key combination “⇧”+“E” generates single character “E”; key “Ü” generates single character “ü”, but could as well generate the canonically equvalent sequ

Re: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Győző Dobner wrote: > Actually, it would be even better to have something like a > COMBINING PHONEME LENGTH MARK that can be used with both > vowels and consonants in any script or language whatsoever and that > would display differently in different languages, dep

RE: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for classicists?

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:39:29 -0400 CE Whitehead wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:06:53 +0200 > > Subject: Is there any unambiguous vowel length mark code point for > > classicists? > > From: solfege...@gmail.com > > To: unicode@unicode.org > > > > Greetings

Re: Re: Fwd: Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:10:16 +0200 Otto Stolz wrote: > Note that the keyboard layout does _not_ depend on the availability > of composed letters in the target encoding (Unicode, in your case). > > Rather, a keyboard driver can generate multiple Unicode characters > for a single keystroke, as wel

Re: Samogitian E with dot above and macron

Am 26.10.2010 um 23:12 schrieb Andrew Cunningham: > I have no objections to high quality commercial fonts and if i had the > available money I'd have one custom made to meet the needs of some > publications I want to type set. > > It is difficult to obtain sufficient information about commerci