From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@comhem.se)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 16:30:34 CST
John Hudson wrote:
> [...] I think of a small*cap* A glyph even when I know it is
> representing a lowercase a character in the text string.
Smallcaps represent (x-height) *capital* letters (with language
dependent toupper rules used, whether manually or automatically,
if the source uses lowercase), no matter what font hacks have been
done (and are still done) w.r.t smallcaps.
I think the uppercase ß proposal is fine as it is.
And that ligating "SS" to a capital ß would be surprising
and most likely very undesired under any circumstances.
Maybe if you ligate "M-A-j-UUU-s-K-E-l--*-ESSO#S" to a capital ß...
...could be a font Easter egg for you ;-)
But seriously, for the Latin script, modern-day ligatures look
very much like the underlying characters's glyphs. Indic scripts
is another matter.
/kent k
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