> Texts may use <a, c. diaeresis> as well as <a, c. small e above> > in the same text, even the same font (and there are (old) documents > that do so, even though they may use these characters interchangeably). > It is up to the author to decide which to use, not the font designer.
We had this argument before, and I believe the argument that fonts with a small e above for diaresis are perfectly acceptable. Yes, there are documents that use a small e above and diaresis, but there are also many more documents that use U+0261(É) and 0067(g) together, and that doesn't mean that a Latin font must use a g with a looped tail. > And one cannot rely on fragile font selections.) If I'm going to use a font that has a small e above for diaresis, my point is not to convey information; it is to carry off a particular style. Most uses of that font are going to be turned into graphics or printed to hard-copy or turned into PDF files where the font selection isn't fragile at all. Just because scholars need certain fonts, and a particular font style would not be acceptable for Arial Unicode, doesn't mean that a font style shouldn't be used ever. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
