2011/6/28 Michael Everson :
> On 28 Jun 2011, at 09:28, Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
>> In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably the best
>> known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are indistinguishable in
>> italics.
>
> That is a fault of the font. In Uralic a
From: unicode-bou...@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bou...@unicode.org] On Behalf
Of Philippe Verdy
> One of the main reason for adding the variation sequence is that current font
> technologies ...
> can only be tweaked based on language (and IPA notations apply to any
> language), and
> there'
On 28/06/11 19:13, Doug Ewell wrote:
I think Michael was finding fault, not with the italicizing of "a"
(U+0061) in fonts, but with that of "ɑ" (U+0251), a much less common
letter, one for which I can't find usage other than in IPA, which
*normally* wouldn't be italicized.
If I believe wikipedia
2011/6/28 Asmus Freytag :
> On 6/28/2011 1:51 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
>>
>> On 28 Jun 2011, at 09:28, Jean-François Colson wrote:
>>
>>> In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably the
>>> best known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are indistinguishable in
>>> it
Asmus Freytag wrote:
>>> In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably
>>> the best known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are
>>> indistinguishable in italics.
>>
>> That is a fault of the font.
>
> No, the font does what it's supposed to, which is to give the corre
On 6/28/2011 1:51 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 28 Jun 2011, at 09:28, Jean-François Colson wrote:
In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably the best
known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are indistinguishable in italics.
That is a fault of the font.
No, t
On 28 Jun 2011, at 09:28, Jean-François Colson wrote:
> In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably the best
> known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are indistinguishable in
> italics.
That is a fault of the font. In Uralic and Germanic linguistics, where both
In Times New Roman, which is the default font for MS Word (probably the
best known word processor), the letters “a” and “ɑ” are
indistinguishable in italics. The IPA is not meant to be used in
italics, however a phonemic transcription is enclosed by solidi and some
software consider words between a
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