At 09:06 -0500 2002-03-30, Jerome Hodges IV wrote:
>
>I wrote before about typesetting Vietnam Highlands documents, and, for the
>most part, all of my problems have been resolved (thanks to all who made
>suggestions). The one character I'm still missing, however, is a capital B
>with a dash (in the glyph, the dash is typically written through the bottom
>half of the vertical line). Does anyone else need this character? Does
>anyone have suggestions before I propose this as a new character in Unicode?
Well now b-dash is used in Germanic linguistics. I think some Old
Saxon texts use b-dash. It would occur intervocalically, I think, but
in titles it might have a capital form. I'll see if I can find
something about that.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Sat Mar 30 2002 - 10:30:27 EST