Re: Displaying Lines of Text as Line-Broken by a Human

2019-07-21 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
There's really no inherent need for many spacing combining marks to have a base character. At least the ones that do not reorder and that don't overhang the base character's glyph. As far as I canĀ  tell, it's largely a convention that originally

Displaying Lines of Text as Line-Broken by a Human

2019-07-21 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
I've been transcribing some Pali text written on palm leaf in the Tai Tham script. I'm looking for a way of reflecting the line boundaries in a manuscript in a transcription. The problem is that lines sometimes start or end with an isolated spacing mark. I want my text to be searchable and there