From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 20:57:30 EST
At 17:24 -0800 2003-12-05, Peter Constable wrote:
> > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
>[mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
>> Of Michael Everson
>
>> I was looking at a book on Cherokee phonetics today and 0294 was used
>> in lower-case text word-internally. Now that's not necessarily a
>> problem; PALOCHKA is also upper-case and is used word-internally. But
>> I thought I'd mention it.
>
>Are you saying they used a cap-height glyph
>word-initially and an x-height glyph elsewhere?
>
No. The Cherokee book (a sociolinguistic study of
syllabary use) uses the tall one word-internally.
>I've got a book on phonetics with some Comanche
>and Shoshone data that has A, E, I, Ï and U
>word-medially; they would have used these
>word-initially if that's where the voiceless
>vowel came. Neither this nor a cap-height 0294
>in phonetic data (in any word position) is a
>problem. If the general category of 0294 were
>changed from Ll to Lu, that Cherokee data would
>not be harmed in any way that I can see.
I tend to agree, particularly in the context,
which is just plain ordinary linguistic, not
orthographic in any way.
>(Particularly if it's printed in a book. BTW,
>how can something that represented digitally be
>in a physical book? :-)
We all need a weekend break. :-)
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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