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Of Asmus Freytag
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 9:01 PM
Functionally, the symbol is not a breve. Visually, the sample does not
look
like a standard breve, and the font resource cited matches the style
of the
sample according
On 2004.10.02, 00:30, Kenneth Whistler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the *obvious* alternative:
U+0367 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER U
...
you just design a ligature in it to represent the sequence
0062, 0367, 0067.
This seems indeed the best way to go (IMOVVHO), *if* the said squiggle
is indeed
Michael Everson schrieb:
I assumed that the curly thing used over the letter u in German
handwriting was a breve (not a combining u superimposed over a u),
and so in these examples though the u is deleted, its breve is not.
I agree with Michael, that the thing is a breve -- however with an
Jörg Knappen schrieb:
1) Add one new character, ZERO WIDTH INVISIBLE LETTER,
I strongly prefer solution 1 because it is fully general with a minimum of
effort added. It can also handle TeX's tie accent.
TeX's tie accent is an inverted right shifted breve above -- that's how it
is implemented in
Jörg Knappen schrieb:
The thing is used in some transliteration of
russian, where the letter ya is transcribed as \t{\ia}, i. e. an
inverted breve placed between a dotless i (\i) and a. A sample can be
found in Donald E. Knuth, the TeXbook.
Just looked up the example in the TeXbook where this
Asmus Freytag schrieb:
see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we
have seen with BREVE ABOVE.
The map sample may have been hand lettered, however, there's no evidence
that suggests that the usage is limited to handwriting. On the contrary,
we have heard from at least
At 06:04 PM 9/30/2004, Michael Everson wrote:
see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we have
seen with BREVE ABOVE.
and Asmus responded:
Functionally, the symbol is not a breve. Visually, the sample does not look
like a standard breve, and the font resource
I assumed that the curly thing used over the letter u in German
handwriting was a breve (not a combining u superimposed over a u),
and so in these examples though the u is deleted, its breve is not.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
Otto Stolz wrote:
As has been said before, in this thread (by Jörg Knappen, IIRC), the
little bow in the -burg abbreviation stems from the u stripped
together with the r.
In German handwriting it used to be common to place a mark above
the letter 'u', to distinguish it from 'n'. When I first saw
I see no reason given for us not to unify the
handwritten symbol we have seen with BREVE ABOVE.
In the environment described, apparently bg is
taken as an abbreviation for berg, and bg (with
breve) is being used as an abbreviation for burg.
The breve is the same as was used in German to
At 06:04 PM 9/30/2004, Michael Everson wrote:
see no reason given for us not to unify the handwritten symbol we have
seen with BREVE ABOVE. In the environment described, apparently bg is
taken as an abbreviation for berg, and bg (with breve) is being used as
an abbreviation for burg. The
There is such a breve in the Italic Cyrillic fonts of Linguistsoftware
http://linguistsoftware.com/tc.htm
Gerd
Peter Kirk wrote:
On 26/09/2004 11:16, Jörg Knappen wrote:
...
Note the fancy semi-cyrillic shape of the breve between the letters
b and g -- it is quite typical for this
I have scanned a sample of the german -burg abbreviature. It is from
Diercke Weltatlas, 165. Auflage, Georg Westermann Verlag,
Braunschweig 1972, card page 14.
In the north you can find two times the -berg abbreviature in Herrenbg.
[Herrenberg] and Brombg. [Bromberg]. SW from Tuebingen you find
From: Jörg Knappen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have scanned a sample of the german -burg abbreviature. It is from
Diercke Weltatlas, 165. Auflage, Georg Westermann Verlag,
Braunschweig 1972, card page 14.
Very interesting! It would be even more interesting if you told us the URL
so we can actually
Note the fancy semi-cyrillic shape of the breve between the letters
b and g -- it is quite typical for this cartographic font.
The font is called Kursivschrift from the Bayerisches
Landesvermessungsamt
from 1967. I found it in the Berthold Types catalogue from 1988.
There is an italic and a very
On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Adam Twardoch wrote:
From: Jörg Knappen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have scanned a sample of the german -burg abbreviature. It is from
Diercke Weltatlas, 165. Auflage, Georg Westermann Verlag,
Braunschweig 1972, card page 14.
Very interesting! It would be even more
At 19:05 +0200 2004-09-26, Jörg Knappen wrote:
I have scanned a sample of the german -burg abbreviature. It is from
Diercke Weltatlas, 165. Auflage, Georg Westermann Verlag,
Braunschweig 1972, card page 14.
Very interesting! It would be even more interesting if you told us the URL
so we
Johannes Bergerhausen schrieb:
Note the fancy semi-cyrillic shape of the breve between the letters
b and g -- it is quite typical for this cartographic font.
The font is called Kursivschrift from the Bayerisches Landesvermessungsamt
from 1967. I found it in the Berthold Types catalogue from 1988.
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