From: Jim Allan (jallan@smrtytrek.com)
Date: Sun Dec 28 2003 - 16:16:04 EST
James Kass wrote on using variation selectors for fine glyph variations:
> So, that approach might meet epigraphers' needs while enabling
> painless cross-variant searching, and still permit scholars to
> get on with encoding their texts as they see fit.
For an example of what might be needed, see Rochelle I. S. Altman's
discussion "Some Aspects of Older Writing Systems: With Focus on the
DSS" at http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/Altman/Altman99.shtml :
Altman indicates how differences in ligaturing, height, spacing and
glyph variation are used in the unpointed "Phoenician/Hebraic Writing
Systems" to indicate emphasis, pause, stress and even the difference
between shin and sin.
Encoding these texts with reasonable fullness would require a "stressed
variant" variation selector, vowel phone variation selectors, a sin/shin
variation selector as well as ZWJ and variant spaces already encoded.
Jim Allan
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