From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 19:19:31 EST
At 09:02 -0800 2003-11-28, Peter Constable wrote:
> > How about the Latin Letters Tresillo and Cuatrillo? Any movement
>> on that front?
>
>I've had them on my list of things to propose. I was trying to find
>more samples of tresillo to get a better idea of range of
>typographic variation, and had just started on that when that work
>got interrupted by other life events such as moving. I still need to
>follow up on that.
>
>> Oh, yes, pictures of the characters...
>
>Some samples of cuatrillo and tresillo can be found at
>http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=RecentCuatrilloUse
I'm following this as well. Whether they are casing is of interest.
For my part I wonder if the quatrillo and tresillo are related to
modified q and c or to a Latin abbreviations of some kind. The name
leads us to 4 and 3 of course but regarding their origins, k' < q and
q' < c makes some sense. Tresillo might be U+0188 for instance and
cuatrillo, hm, might be U+0261. Though neither of those unifications
is really satisfactory.
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