If I find references (e.g. the ones Ken and I have already given) with the rest of the Latin alphabet and other characters used as subscripts in linguistic works, would you add these to your proposal as well?
This proposal is for Indo-Europeanist characters. There have been many proposals for superscript and subscript characters.
If "yes", you are accepting that "the rest" is open-ended.
Your point?
If "no", what makes your subscripts different from and more encodable than my subscripts?
Nothing? We showed evidence of use. Can you do the same?
Ernest has given a reasonable criterion, but one which rules out x and /. Do you have an alternative criterion?
I don't think "standaloneness" is much of a criterion. If Indo-Europeanists are representing subscript (e/o) and the parentheses are encoded, and the e and o can be encoded, why on earth should the / not be encoded?
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
