From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 20:47:31 EDT
Peter Constable wrote:
>>And if... someone finds a well documented script
>>in which a true middle dot and an x-height dot are used contrastively,
>
> That would be a somewhat surprising and not-to-be-recommended design for
> a writing system. Not to be completely ruled out, though. But we can
> probably wait to cross that encoding bridge when we come to it.
We already have conrasted use of a baseline dot (period or full stop) and a mid-dot (word
separator or stylistic hyphen), so why would you be surprised by contrasted use of mid-dot
and x-height dot? Vertical alignment is clearly sometimes a semantic feature. I've seen
plenty of business cards in which the mid-dot is used as a stylistic division between
parts of a telephone number instead of spaces, periods or hyphens. I don't like the style,
but people do it. Presumably some Greek people do it also, in which case they are
contrasting the mid-dot and the ano teleia.
John Hudson
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