Re: U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI not usable in other scripts as "hook below"?

From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 18:26:46 CDT

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    John Hudson wrote on Friday, June 16, 2006 at 11:45 PM
    Subject: Re: U+0345 COMBINING GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI not usable in other
    scripts as "hook below"?

    > Richard Wordingham wrote:
    >
    >> And why should one presume it would appear adscript? For example, in
    >> Gentium it appears adscript with a capital alpha, eta or omega, but
    >> subscript with a capital iota, upsilon or 'A'.

    > The font could perform a glyph substitution of subscript to adscript iota
    > following any uppercase letter to cover these exceptional usaes (my
    > Biblical Greek font will) but Gentium does not.

    Do you do it for upper case Latin as well? Surely there's no tradition
    there to influence the choice of glyph!

    But part of my point was that it doesn't have to be adscript at all - it may
    legitimately be subscript with all characters.

    Richard.



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