From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 11:02:03 EST
I'm spec'ing a glyph set for a family of typefaces that will support, among
other things, textual apparatus in Biblical scholarship. Among the glyphs
that need to be included are a subset of about a dozen uppercase fraktur
letters that are used in _Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia_ to indicate
different manuscript sources. These can be handled as glyph variants of the
standard (roman) uppercase letters in the fonts, but this limits their
usefulness to applications that provide a mechanism for accessing them, and
to documents that include appropriate markup. I am wondering if there would
be either practical or philosophical objection to using Plane 1
Mathematical Alphabets fraktur codepoints for these glyphs, so that they
could be encoded in plain text documents? My reasoning is that, as in
mathematical setting, most of the meaning of the fraktur letters in textual
apparatus is in their fraktur-ness, rather than in their A-ness, B-ness, etc.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
It is necessary that by all means and cunning,
the cursed owners of books should be persuaded
to make them available to us, either by argument
or by force. - Michael Apostolis, 1467
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