Re: Double Macrons on gh (was Re: Tildes on Vowels)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 11:01:25 EDT


William Overington scripsit:

> As first letter and second letter could be theoretically almost any other
> Unicode characters, would the approach be to just place all three glyphs
> superimposed onto the screen and hope that the visual effect is reasonable
> or would a font have a special glyph within it for each of the permutations
> of three characters which the font designer thought might reasonably occur
> yet default to a superimposing of three glyphs for any unexpected
> permutation which arises?

Depending on font support, there could be a glyph for this combination,
or the default could be used, which is that the combining mark is positioned
over the first character in such a way that it hangs over the presumed
space for the next character (hopefully more or less correctly).

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