On 03/05/2002 08:38:39 PM Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>However, it might make sense to make an implementation guideline
>that would constrain any such mechanism to double diacritics and
>suggest that people move to generic markup mechanisms if they
>need more.
That would address the problem of overgeneration I mentioned in another
message, and would greatly increase the likelihood that font developers
actually implement something.
>My guess is that well over 99.9% of the use of these beasties
>in what could arguably be called plain text is application of
>diacritics over/under a digraph. Application over or under a tri- or
>higher-order multigraph must be very rare indeed -- in part
>just because anybody trying to use such things in print (or
>on typewriters, or whatever) would have run into technical
>difficulties and other pushback in the first place.
Absolutely.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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