From: Patrick Andries (Patrick.Andries@xcential.com)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 10:10:40 EST
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De: "Doug Ewell" <dewell@adelphia.net>
> Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote:
>
> >> And this grid doesn't even particularly fit the characters.
> >> Two big rules of Latin typography are that the capital
> >> letters are all of the same size (visually, at least)
> >
> > Is this true for accented capitals or only for "English" letters?
> >
> > AÀÜUÇGJQO…
> >
> > Did I yet again read too fast?
>
> Maybe. Think "base letter," not "letter with combining diacritics."
Well, I think this is better said by the writer then implicitly thought by
the reader ;-)
> Also bear in mind that capital J and Q have no descender in some fonts.
A minority, I would think, for Q and this right from lapidary capitals and
there are also some capital P and Y that extend below the baseline (Fraktur
for instance, unless this is not Latin). But okay, this is not a Unicode
issue but a font design issue.
P. A.
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