Marco Cimarosti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But if the font is old technology (e.g. TrueType), you cannot be fussy
about
> precise location of the diacritic, in fact. In these kinds of fonts,
> diacritics are generally missing or, at best, designed to fit the
capitals,
> so that they look ridiculously distant when used on lowercase.
Indeed, when I said Marco's tilde was positioned "more or less" correctly
over the q, the tilde was actually quite high -- probably high enough to
accommodate a capital letter. No matter. It's conformant and perfectly
legible, and on my Windows 95 "classic" (not even Rev B) system, that's
much more than I expected.
BTW, I just flipped through WG2 N2352R ("Principles and Procedures for
Allocation of New Characters...") and was reminded that that document uses
"Q + caron" as the canonical example of a character that is not available
in precomposed form, and won't be in the future because of normalization
issues.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
