From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 18:38:06 EDT
Ken Whistler wrote on 06/19/2003 01:35:14 PM:
> In Bopomofo these tone marks are typeset in a separate
> vertical line to the right of the vertical line of
> Bopomofo. In horizontal typesetting, they are either
> over the top of the Bopomofo or set at the upper-right
> shoulder of the Bopomofo character representing the
> 'final' of a syllable.
>
> It is possible that they were originally designed by a
> dyslexic based on the Chao tone letters, but no, they
> are not really intended to be used as particular values
> of those or as an augmentation of those tone letters. Instead,
> as I indicated, they are used with another collection of
> tonal diacritics for extended Bopomofo.
>
> So no, they glyphs haven't been munged. But these obviously
> need better annotation for the names list.
That sounds, then, like these are *not* two of the left-stemmed tone
letters (mirrors of 02E5..02E9) that I'm going to be including in a
proposal for additional modifier characters for tone.
- Peter
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