From: Raymond Mercier (RaymondM@compuserve.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 16:51:36 EDT
John Hudson writes:
> Forget dead keys. Dead keys are only useful if you can perform a character
level mapping
> to a precomposed character code. As such, it is a mechanism that is
effectively useless
> for composing sequences that need to be rendered as either dynamically
composed
> combinations (e.g. using OpenType GPOS mark attachment) or unencoded
ligatures at the
> glyph level (e.g. using OpenType GSUB many-to-one substitution). Rather
than having an
> 'acute dead key', it is better to simply have a combining acute key, and
enter the sequence as
>
> <Icircumflex, acute>
This is new to me. Where do I learn more ?
Raymond
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