Re: COMBINING OVER MARK?

This alternate orthography notation for (s|z) in criticise/criticize
would be more fun if it was discussing (o|ou) in neighbor/neighbour.
One shouldn’t think of a single character to represent the o over both
ou, markup is easier.

Cheers,

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny_at_eglug.org> wrote:
> Well that paragraph is rich text; different fonts (roman and upright) at
> different sizes (text and script size) pretty much makes it formated
> text to me.
>
> Regards,
> Khaled
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:19:24AM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote:
>> Khaled,
>>
>> On a typewriter, the same effect can be achieved as
>> "anathemati<half-interval up>s<BS><1 interval down>z<half-interval up>e"
>>
>> Where would the line between markup and typesetting languages be drawn?
>>
>> Leo
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny_at_eglug.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51:09PM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote:
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > Attached is a part of page 36 of Henry Alford's *The Queen's English: a
>> > > manual of idiom and usage (1888)* [
>> > > http://archive.org/details/queensenglishman00alfo]
>> > >
>> > > Is the way to indicate alternative s/z spellings used there plain text
>> > > (arguably, if it can be done with a typewriter, it is plain text)
>> >
>> > I see a typeset book not an output of a typewriter.
>> >
>> > > or rich text (ignoring the font size of letters s and z)?
>> > >
>> > > If it's the latter, what's the markup to achieve it?
>> >
>> > Using TeX:
>> >
>> > \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$}
>> >
>> > 49. How are we to decide between {\it s} and {\it z} in such words as
>> > anathemati\s{}e, cauteri\s{}e, criti\-ci\s{}e, deodori\s{}e,
>> > dogmati\s{}e,
>> > fraterni\s{}e, and the rest? Many of these are derived from Greek
>> > \bye
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Khaled
>> >
>

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