RE: Tildes on vowels

From: David J. Perry (perryd@telocity.com)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 15:07:40 EDT


My Cardo font (http://members.telocity.com/~perryd/) also displays everything properly except the combining macron (which is because Windows and IE don't handle combining marks properly, not a problem with the font--the combining macron is there).

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Tex Texin
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 1:30 PM
> To: Frank da Cruz
> Cc: James Kass; unicode@unicode.org; archive@ngo.globalnet.co.uk
> Subject: Re: Tildes on vowels
>
>
> 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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