From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 10:24:55 CST
Karl Pentzlin <karl dash pentzlin at acssoft dot de> wrote:
> DE> I think Karl may have expected that fonts could be developed in
> such a
> DE> way that combining diacritical marks would be spaced properly
> above the
> DE> base character, ...
>
> That is exactly true, if "properly" simply means "in a way regarding
> the
> formal combining classes, providing a result which can be recognized
> by the
> user".
Yes.
> DE> more or less by magic.
>
> Yes, if "magic" is colloquial for "done by a complex and well-designed
> algorithm which possibly is not obvious for everybody at first
> glance" -
> something which computer scientists (like me) do sometimes.
Sort of. The important point is that the algorithm would not have to be
custom-fitted for each combination of base letter + combining mark(s).
Some of the font experts are saying or implying that the custom-fitting
is necessary for virtually all such combinations.
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