Re: Tildes on vowels

From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 14:29:44 EDT


Frank, which font are you using?
Arial Unicode MS has the problems you describe. If you use James Kass
CODE2000 you can see them.
tex

Frank da Cruz wrote:
>
> > Consider the recent example offered by Frank da Cruz,
> > which uses the superscript "i".
> >
> > > Thus "Þe" ("The") might be written "Yⁱ".
> >
> > (If you have "au_courant.ttf" installed and can actually display it.)
> >
> > In HTML, that might be written as "Y<superscript>i</superscript>"
> >
> > That's mark-up.
> >
> As a visual aid in this discussion, I put the St. Erkenwald manuscript
> passage online here:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/st-erkenwald.html
>
> It's straightforward HTML but I don't seem to get decent results with either
> IE 6.0 or Netscape 6.2. Neither one seems to handle the combining macron,
> and IE can't disply yogh.
>
> - Frank

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