Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2002 um 17:07 schrieb Stefan Persson:
SP> In old Swedish there was a tradition of writing words of foreign origin in
SP> the Roman type of letters (in Swedish referred to as "antikva"), while the
SP> rest of the words were written in Fraktur. ...
Am Dienstag, 29. Januar 2
Hello Karl and others,
KP> While in Swedish this is a *tradition* according to Stefan, in German
KP> it is even a *rule*. The Duden says:
KP> "Fremdsprachige Wörter und Wortgruppen ... sind im Fraktursatz als
KP> Antiqua zu setzen", i.e. "Words of foreign languages and groups of
KP> them ... have
Am Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2002 um 00:39 schrieb Philipp Reichmuth:
PR> ... for example, in German hyphenation the consonant
PR> cluster "ck" gets hyphenated as "k-k" under some circumstances. This
PR> is a rule as well, but still it is a clear case where putting it into
PR> the encoding by means of
Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> [...] (as you can encode a Serbocroatian plain text to
> be displayed in Latin or Cyrillic correctly without change).
I guess you are talking about old Yugoslav character sets, as this would not
be possible in Unicode.
Another case of a single encoding which overlaps more
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:42:08AM +0100, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> The advantage is that you can encode text to be displayed correctly
> (i.e. according to the obligatory typesetting rules) in Fraktur as
> plain text. You even can display this text correctly in Fraktur or
> Roman without change (as
- Original Message -
From: "Karl Pentzlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: den 29 januari 2002 23:39
Subject: Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re:
Proposing Fraktur)
> While in Swedish this is a *tradition* acc
- Original Message -
From: "Karl Pentzlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: den 30 januari 2002 09:42
Subject: Re: Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re:
Proposing Fraktur)
> PR> I think most of these case
> quite a lot of space. However, Fraktur is already encoded in the
> Mathematical whatever-it's-called block. This variant selector would mean
> that lots of characters can be displayed in two *different* ways. I'd
> prefer
> that Fraktur diacritics were added instead, and that the mathematical
>
Stefan suggested:
> > Maybe something like a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" would be appropriate:
>
> In any case, it'd be better to have *two* selectors, one to turn on Fraktur,
> and a different one to turn it off. Otherwise, you'd have to put the variant
> selector after *every* letter you want to
Hi,
Ken wrote:
> Das sinkende Schiff sandte SOS-Rufe.
> or conversely, perhaps better:
> Das sinkende Schiff sandte SOS-Rufe.
at the end, it may be more useful to rather markup the semantics than
formatting properties, i.e.
This is not a question of Zeitgeist.
It is the responsibili
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