Re: dotless j

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Sun Jul 04 1999 - 13:57:54 EDT


Ar 09:10 -0700 1999-07-04, scr�obh [email protected]:

>If you want to do proper rendering you have to have a fully composed
>glyph for each of the proper letters. You cannot just use the combining
>characters with a base character, most of the combining diacritics would
>not fit as they should on top of lowercase vs uppercase letters,
>such as iI jJ aA oO uU etc, in combination with ~'`� etc.

With a powerful typesetting package one can control kerning and baseline
shift to get proper placement, which is what I was talking about. You don't
have to have a fully composed glyph, but in the absence of a dotless j you
can't do anything.

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