On 1/20/16, Ray_Net <tbrraymond.schmit...@tbrscarlet.be> wrote: > David E. Ross wrote on 20/01/2016 05:34: >> >> On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> >>> I just wrote: >>>> >>>> In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use >>>> the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: >>>> >>>>> ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. >>>>> >>>>> At 1:15, it occurs in "many" [mɛ̃ɾi] (I've used "ɛ̃" for nasalized >>>>> [ɛ], which would properly be written with the tilde over the vowel). >>>>> She does the same thing elsewhere in "lovin' is so soft" >>>>> [lʌvɪ̃ɾɪzsosɔft]. >>> >>> As promised, this illustrates the results when I send in HTML. >>> >> >> I do not see your displacement in either message. As you see here, >> however, I do see the displacement when quoting your HTML-formatted >> message in a plain-text reply. I also saw the displacement when quoting >> your plain-text message in a plain-text reply, but I am not sending that >> reply. >> > The displacement is clearly explained and showed: > In plain text: > > it occurs in "many" [mɛ̃ɾi] (I've used "ɛ̃" for nasalized > > the tilde "~" is placed in plain-text over the "r" of "meri" and over the > last " of "s" > the tilde "~" is placed in the hmtl over the "e" or "meri" and over the ɛ of > the ɛ̃.
This is strange - the message from Ray_Net has every tilde displaced one character to the right but my response with his quoted text displays correctly. Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
