At 15:19 +0100 2002-04-03, Kent Karlsson wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Everson
>...
>> At 20:39 -0800 2002-03-03, Dan Wood wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I'm not finding hints of this in any of the FAQ or "where's my
>> >character" docs .... I'm trying to create (or find) the "oo" pair
>> >with a combining macron (0304) and combining breve (0306) over the
>> >pair of them together, as in these images:
>> >
>> ><http://www.bartleby.com/images/pronunciation/oomacr.gif>
>> ><http://www.bartleby.com/images/pronunciation/oobreve.gif>
>>
>> I think the COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER is suppoised to be used here.
>> You put it between the two o's and then follow that string with a
>> combining macron and it is supposed to centre itself over the whole
>> lot.
>
>The problem here is that the COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER only affects
>*enclosing* combining marks (and combining marks *following* an
>enclosing one).
I do not know what you mean by this. The CGJ makes what it is joining
into a single entity. So if you add a diacritic to it, it should
centre itself above that entity.
-- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Mon Mar 04 2002 - 10:15:07 EST
