Re: Ligatures with diacritics (was: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script)

2003-12-31 Thread John Hudson
At 01:13 PM 12/30/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: But if it were, this ligature would be very interesting and problematic because it is a ligature between a base character and a diacritic. This is not a problem if it is always used, in a particular font, but it is problematic if the ligature is

Ligatures with diacritics (was: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script)

2003-12-30 Thread Peter Kirk
On 30/12/2003 11:44, John Hudson wrote: At 11:15 AM 12/30/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: Even if it were verified, it isn't a good case for encoding a separate character *equivalent* to a combination of two existing characters: that's a glyph variant ligature. Actually, I don't think so. The

Re: Ligatures with diacritics (was: Ancient Northwest Semitic Script)

2003-12-30 Thread Chris Jacobs
I wonder if there are other, better defined, cases of ligatures between base characters and diacritics in other scripts, i.e. cases where there is an optional alternative to base character plus diacritic which does not look like the base character plus the diacritic. Devangari? Syllabe