From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 00:05:03 EDT
on 2003-08-06 15:24 Doug Ewell wrote:
> I'm not a typographer (intelligent or otherwise), but I'm having a tough
> time seeing how Section 2.10 *requires* fonts and rendering engines to
> give a space-plus-combining-diacritic combination the exact minimum
> width of the diacritic alone, or to leave equal space before and after
> such a combination. All I think it is saying is that, for example, the
> combination i-plus-tilde may be wider than i alone, because tilde is
> wider than i.
Considering that one approach is to use opentype to map a letter plus
diacritical to a single glyph, an obvious solution would be to include
space + diacritical combos in that table. An important font issue, but a
font issue nonetheless.
-- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Mockingbird Font Works http://www.mockfont.com/
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