Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Karl Pentzlin
Investigating some fonts, I found in a version of Adobe Garamond Pro the U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER glyph being a dot symmetrically preceded and followed by a tiny space. In the same font, the U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS glyph has a tiny space (smaller than in the U+2024 glyph) before each of the three

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Philippe Verdy continued: > > > What surprizes me the most in the Unicode spec is that it > > both says that its purpose is to create arbitrary length > > of leaders > > As in plain text, as can be seen in Table of Content listings > in many RFCs,

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Philippe Verdy continued: > What surprizes me the most in the Unicode spec is that it > both says that its purpose is to create arbitrary length > of leaders As in plain text, as can be seen in Table of Content listings in many RFCs, for example. (Which, however, use ASCII 0x2E for the same pu

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Kenneth Whistler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > That last fact should be taken as a hint that for most > purposes, manual leaders should just be sequences of FULL STOP > characters (as you will see, for instance in the plain text > representations of Internet Drafts or RFCs, for example). > But in a

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Michael, > As a typesetter on Mac OS X, I see no reason to abandon the use of > the three-dotted horizontal ellipsis character, Ken. Nor do I. It is fine for ellipses... And it was encoded for that. But in encodings which don't have an ellipsis character, it is roughly comparable to a sequence

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Ben Dougall
On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 03:07 pm, John Cowan wrote: Ben Dougall scripsit: why is it not categorised as white space then? or is it? doesn't look like it is to me, but i'm not sure how to actually find out for sure. Well, um, it's not white: there is a dot in it. i was just querying what phili

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Philippe Verdy vamped: > > > For example I would not be shocked if a text using it was rendered with > > > a monospaced font, where the base line of the character cell shows > > > multiple tiny dots, that create a contiguous dotted line when multiple > > > U+2024 characters (one per display cell)

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Jim Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:05 PM Subject: Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? > John Cowan posted: > > > Not really, in many applications it will translate in one

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ben Dougall scripsit: > > > why is it not categorised as white space then? or is it? doesn't look > > like it is to me, but i'm not sure how to actually find out for sure. > > Well, um, it's not white: there is a dot in it. Not really, in many applicatio

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-31 Thread John Cowan
Ben Dougall scripsit: > why is it not categorised as white space then? or is it? doesn't look > like it is to me, but i'm not sure how to actually find out for sure. Well, um, it's not white: there is a dot in it. -- You are a child of the universe no less John Cowan than the trees and

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Dougall
On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 02:13 am, Philippe Verdy wrote: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? Is there a difference of appearance in high quality typesetting? - Karl There seems to be a difference: leaders are expected to be written in sequences (sometimes

RE: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-30 Thread Figge, Donald
- From: Karl Pentzlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? Is there a difference of appearance in high

Re: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-29 Thread Philippe Verdy
From: "Karl Pentzlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:59 PM Subject: When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? > When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? > Is there a diff

When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP?

2003-05-29 Thread Karl Pentzlin
When do you use U+2024 ONE DOT LEADER instead of U+002E FULL STOP? Is there a difference of appearance in high quality typesetting? - Karl