Re: Unicode ranges with baseline/x-height/X-height

From: Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse_at_ilyaz.org>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:50:07 -0700

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 04:21:23PM +0600, Christopher Fynn wrote:
> Indic scripts generally have a hanging base

Sure. And many mathematical symbols should have a “math-centerline base”.

However, the font files I’m working with do not have the information
about where these extra baselines are (or any per-script details); so
I do not care about them at the moment.

So my question was about the “compatible with European scripts”
baseline (this is why I put it near uppercase/lowercase; probably I
needed to be more explicit).

Ilya

P.S.: in more details: I’m merging a (lousily autogenerated) font
      which has a complete 6.3 BMP (Unifont + my α-level beautifier)
      with a (well designed) font which supports European scripts (but
      even them incompletely: DejaVu). So the only mismatches may
      appear in the scripts supported by both.

P.P.S.: However, I presume that in technical writing, the notion of
               script is not so set in stone; character/words from one
               script would pepper the text as “symbols” inside a running
               “human language” text (as Greek does in math-in-Latin, and
               Greek and Latin do in math-in-Cyrillic).

         Do not know how this is handled inside
         non-Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/Hebrew scripts.
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