From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 20:52:38 EST
At 14:05 -0800 2002-11-17, John Hudson wrote:
>And yet one more thing:
>
>The underdot (low glottalised tone), when applied to the lowercase
>y, should sit just slightly to the right of the descending stroke,
>far enough under the right side of the letter to make it clear that
>the dot is below and not to the side of the letter. Clearly, this
>would be impossible in designs that have a straight right side
>descending y (e.g. the Bremer Presse roman). I don't know what to
>suggest for such cases other than to avoid such designs when making
>typefaces for Vietnamese.
If the glyph precludes right positioning I guess one would have no
choice but to use left positioning.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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