Re: Breath marks and crossbar-I?

From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2010 - 09:55:42 CST

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    The capital I-s is clearly a stylistic issue (clearly contextual variation,
    though the contextual rules might be more than simply graphotactic). The
    "breath marks" is a nice catch, however...

    Szabolcs

    2010/12/7 António MARTINS-Tuválkin <antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt>

    > At < http://www.remindblog.com/2010/04/01/avoid-comic-sans/ >, check #4
    > for «breath marks», and #5-6 for a curious discussion of "I" serifed vs.
    > serifless (in English), and handwritten small capitals.
    >
    > These breath marks look like U+269E U+269F, used as an open-close pair,
    > pointing inwards, like ⚞this⚟.
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