From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 23:06:09 CDT
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> U+0336 COMBINING LONG STROKE OVERLAY was intended more as the
> poor man's strikethrough diacritic...
Or not so poor if handled with contextual glyphs substitution for appropriate widths and
dynamic mark positioning. I just implemented this in Hebrew for Dead Sea Scrolls scholars
who use a strikethrough to indicate deleted text. The visual results can be quite
acceptable with about six width variants of the long stroke overlay character.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC tiro@tiro.com We say our understanding measures how things are, and likewise our perception, since that is how we find our way around, but in fact these do not measure. They are measured. -- Aristotle, Metaphysics
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