From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 18:41:17 EDT
At 02:45 PM 6/26/2003, Mark Davis wrote:
>Another consequence is that it separates the sequence into two
>combining sequences, not one. Don't know if this is a serious problem,
>especially since we are concerned with a limited domain with
>non-modern usage, but I wanted to mention it.
It is a serious problem if separate combining sequences means, as it seems
to in all the current apps I have tested, that marks separated by one of
these control characters cannot be correctly positioned relative to a
preceding consonant. Insertion of any zero-width control character between
two marks applied to the same Hebrew consonant results in a loss of
interraction between the marks (i.e. the first mark is not repositioned to
accomodate the second) and the second mark loses all positioning
intelligence and falls between the consonant and the next one. My guess is
that the layout engine (Uniscribe in this case) makes the reasonable
assumption that the two combining sequences do not interract.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores,
are labeled New Age, you can find there even Saint Augustine,
who, as far as I know, was not a fascist. But combining Saint
Augustine and Stonehenge -- that is a symptom of Ur-Fascism.
- Umberto Eco
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