Re: Letters d L l and t with caron

From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Tue Oct 23 2001 - 14:35:05 EDT


At 06:49 10/23/2001, Darren Morby wrote:

>Which is the preferred form, L with an actual caron or L with an apostrophe?
>And should there not be a note on capital L like there is on small l? (The
>note on small l does not say that it applies to capital L also.)

The apostrophe form (carka, I believe) is the preferred form for both the
upper and lowercase L. I have seen Slovak texts that use the regular
caron/hacek form for the uppercase L, but most display the apostrophe form.
I agree that a note would be handy.

John Hudson

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Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com

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