From: George W Gerrity (g.gerrity@gwg-associates.com.au)
Date: Sun Nov 11 2007 - 21:42:49 CST
Biblical scholars use use textual apparatus similar to Ruby text used
in Japanese. Of course, this is highly marked up, but there may be a
special case for including ruby glyphs in fonts used for biblical
criticism.
George
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On 2007-11-12, at 07:17, John Hudson wrote:
> As a type designer, I'm mainly involved in the business of making
> text visible and trying to get it to display correctly. I'm going
> to be speaking at a conference in January* and as background for my
> talk I'm interested in cataloguing the other things that people do,
> or want to do, with computerised text. It strikes me that many of
> these things take place in the realm in which text is 'invisible',
> i.e. prior to or independent of display. Some of these things are
> obvious in a general sense (spelling and grammar checking, sorting,
> comparing), but I'd like to come up with some specific and
> interesting examples -- particularly of a scholarly nature --, and
> also would like know of any other things that people 'do with text'
> beyond displaying it. I suspect that there are things I have not
> even imagined within my narrow focus.
>
> John Hudson
>
> * http://www.bibletechconference.com/
>
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> A bilabial velaric ingressive stop is essentially a kiss.
> -- Pullum & Ladusaw, _Phonetic symbol guide_
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