From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2007 - 14:33:00 CDT
Philippe Verdy wrote:
>> SBL Font Foundation members have reported four conventions: a circle
>> (non-dotted), a square, a baseline stroke and a blank space. The
>> baseline stroke is the most problematic, because I'm not sure how this
>> should be encoded (some people have suggested the Arabic tatweel
>> character).
> It would be even much better to use the ASCII underscore if it did not cause
> problems with Hebrew diacritics written below the baseline, as the
> underscore usually occurs below the baseline too, at the same position as
> underlining.
This is what I currently have in the font (not yet implemented by layout engines), with a
contextual lookup that raises the underscore to the baseline when followed by any Hebrew mark.
JH
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