Re: Glottal stops (bis) (was RE: Missing African Latin letters (bis))

From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 16:14:07 EST

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    John Hudson wrote,

    > ... If I'd been asked to design upper- and lowercase forms from
    > scratch, I would make the cap form the same height as e.g. P,
    > and as massive, and I would make the lowercase form a *descending*
    > letter, with the bowl filling the x-height and with a straight
    > descender terminating like that of p.

    Interesting approach. This should look quite pleasing in running
    text.

    If a new upper case glottal stop character were added to Unicode,
    I'd move the existing glottal stop glyph to the new upper case
    code point and make a lower case glyph which would match the
    "t" height and be a bit narrower than the upper case. This would
    represent a "typographic compromise" offering a distinction
    between cases while preserving, more or less, user expectations
    for existing data display.

    Best regards,

    James Kass
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