Whether it is a matter of "typography" or not depends on what the input text is. Setting the letters D v o Å Ã k as "Dvorak" would indeed be bad typography. Setting the letters D v o r a k as "Dvorak" would be perfect fine typography.
âMark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 02:29 Subject: Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- >arabic > At 17:43 -0700 2004-07-08, Mark Davis wrote: > > > Why would anyone want to do that? > > > >I tend to be with you on this, that it does little harm to retain accents. > >However, most major periodic popular publications have this practice; for > >example The Economist keeps accents for French, German, Spanish, Italian > >words and names but discards others (as I recall). > > I wouldn't consider that good typography, that's all I'm saying. > -- > Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com >
