Re: Tengwar vowel signs

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 15:25:08 EST


At 14:28 -0500 2002-01-03, John Cowan wrote:
>Michael Everson wrote:
>
>>Did you not read my draft paper proposing the solution for this
>>feature of this script?
>
>Can't find it.

http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/tengwar-vowels.pdf
http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/tengwar.pdf

>In the CSUR there is a reference to smart keyboarding,
>but if logical order trumps base-before-combining (which in practice
>would mean saying that Tengwar vowel signs aren't combining at all,
>but subject to andatory language-dependent ligatures), then what
>we need is smart rendering (i.e. OpenType vel sim.)

So I think, if we want underlying logical phonetic order.

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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com



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