On 2025-06-07, Richard Wordingham via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to decipher the tone diacritics used in from jounralk > page 157 onwards (page 10 onwards of > https://kyoto-seas.org/pdf/7/2/070201.pdf). After massively increasing > the magnification of the PDF, I see that three of them (numbers 6 > 'high-rise', 7 'low-rise' and 8 'high fall') are simply side-by-side > combinations of U+0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT 'low', U+0301 COMBINING > ACUTE ACCENT, U+0302 COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT 'fall' and U+030C > COMBINING CARON 'rise'. Does this mean that they *are* encoded, but > one 'simply' has to induce the renderer to choose to render them > side-by-side rather than stacking them vertically?
TUS says (ยง3.6) says that by default combining marks above the base stack vertically, but they may be side-by-side for a number of reasons. So I guess "yes". > I'm struggling with number 9 'low-fall', which sometimes resembles > U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT, but may just be a > pixellation effect for for side-by-side <U+0302, U+0300>. I think it's obvious that it's circumflex and grave - in 6-9 the notation is prefixing an acute to indicate a high register, and suffixing a grave to indicate low, apart from: > Number 4 'high-dip' could be U+0303 COMBINING TILDE. Typographically, it clearly is a tilde. Probably on the grounds that acute acute-hacek is too fiddly to typeset
