---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Oren Watson <oren.wat...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:03 PM Subject: Re: Why incomplete subscript/superscript alphabet ? To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi>
If this is a real need, why not petition more software to allow the use of the U+8C partial line up and U+8B partial line down characters for the this purpose? On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote: > 6.10.2016, 17:55, Frédéric Grosshans wrote: > > Le 06/10/2016 à 09:21, Marcel Schneider a écrit : >> >>> >>> I did never see that. Would you show us some examples to look up? Iʼm >>> curious >>> whether they could be managed without accented superscripts. >>> Anyway, combining diacritics should be placeable on superscripts as well. >>> >> Like «3ᵉ̀ᵐᵉ» ? It already works on my laptop (Thunderbird in Ubuntu 16.04) >> The superscripted part is 1D49 + 0300 + 1D50 + 1D49, and there is >> nothing to add. >> > > It’s fine that it works in some environment(s), but it would be > unrealistic to expect it to work generally. In most environments, assuming > the font used supports the characters involved in the first place, the > result is probably a grave accent struck over the superscript e, in a > rather ugly way. > > Even though Unicode superscript (and subscript) characters have a lot of > practical use in many contexts, this isn’t really one of them. In a case > like this, in most environments, and especially if you want the text to > display well in different environments, the solution is to use just “3ème”, > perhaps with some method (“above” the character level) used to format the > letters as superscript, when not limited to plain text – but I’m afraid > most fonts don’t have a superscript glyph for “é” available, so it would > usually be best to give up the superscripting idea here. > > Yucca > > > >