Re: Digraphs as Distinct Logical Units

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 08:41:50 EDT


Marco Cimarosti scripsit:

> If this is the case, decomposing the mark into the Arabic letters it derives
> from would be as nonsensical as decomposing the question mark into the Latin
> letters it derives from ("Qo" for "quaestio").

I grant your "Q" but I doubt your "o". In all fonts known to me, the
dot under ? and ! is plainly a period, as indeed one would expect at
the end of a sentence.

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