Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Mark Davis ☕
I agree; when the nuggets of useful information are so overwhelmed by the volume of rubble, you just can't afford the time to sift them out. Mark *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:46, Andrew West wrote: > On 28 July 2010 22:09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > > > You'

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread verdy_p
"Markus Scherer" > > There are 857 combining marks with combining class of 0: > http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[[:M:]%26[:ccc%3D0:]]&abb=on&g= So what ? I perfectly know that there are a lot of diacritics with cc of 0. It's DEFINITELY NOT me that contested that on this l

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Andrew West
On 28 July 2010 22:09, Philippe Verdy wrote: > > You've not understood what I wanted to say. Maybe if you said less people would understand more . I don't know how much free time you must have on your hands to write hundreds of lines in reply to almost every message on this list (3,879 lines in

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
> Message du 26/07/10 18:45 > De : "Markus Scherer" > A : verd...@wanadoo.fr > Copie à : "Unicode Mailing List" > Objet : Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as > if struck out. > > There are 857 combi

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-26 Thread Markus Scherer
There are 857 combining marks with combining class of 0: http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=[[:M:]%26[:ccc%3D0:]]&abb=on&g= On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Philippe Verdy wrote: > "Kent Karlsson" wrote: > > Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev "Philippe Verdy" : > > > > > Double dia

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
"Kent Karlsson" wrote: > Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev "Philippe Verdy" : > > > Double diacritics have a combining property equal to zero, so they > > No, they don't. The above ones have combining class 234 and the below > ones have combining class 233 (other characters with the word DOUBLE > in the

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
"Clark S. Cox III" > How can *any* combining character have a combining class of zero? Isn't that > a contradiction in terms? > > The U+035D in your example, for instance, has a combining class of 234. No contradiction. Not all combining characters have a non-zero combining class. The combining

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread verdy_p
> De : vanis...@boil.afraid.org > Guys, does nobody read the bloody Standard anymore!? > > You CAN currently add a diacritic on top of a double diacritic. The "other" > base character is called the Combining Grapheme Joiner (U+304F). Sorry, I had forgotten this one. Note that I was not sure abou

Re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2010-07-24 10.07, skrev "Philippe Verdy" : > Double diacritics have a combining property equal to zero, so they No, they don't. The above ones have combining class 234 and the below ones have combining class 233 (other characters with the word DOUBLE in them are 'double' in some other way):

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread vanisaac
Guys, does nobody read the bloody Standard anymore!? You CAN currently add a diacritic on top of a double diacritic. The "other" base character is called the Combining Grapheme Joiner (U+304F). >From V. 5.0, ch 7.9: Occasionally one runs across orthographic conventions that use a dot, an acute

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread verdy_p
"Philippe Verdy" wrote: > But even with this case, you wont be able to encode with the ZWJ trick > in plain text, such groupings that are expressed this way in TeX: > > \breve{ \breve{oo} x \breve{ o\acute{o} } } > > Because double diacritics encoded in Unicode can't be safely stacked > together

re: Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-24 Thread Philippe Verdy
> Message du 24/07/10 09:02 > De : "William_J_G Overington" > A : unicode@unicode.org > Copie à : wjgo_10...@btinternet.com > Objet : Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if > struck out. > > > I have been looking at the follow

Using Combining Double Breve and expressing characters perhaps as if struck out.

2010-07-23 Thread William_J_G Overington
I have been looking at the following thread, which is entitled "Making Fonts with Diacritical Marks for Phonetics". http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3169 I am writing here to ask two questions please in relation to the Unicode aspects of the problem. I have looked at http://w