Re: Glottal stops (bis) (was RE: Missing African Latin letters (bis))

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Dec 05 2003 - 20:52:30 EST

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At 16:18 -0800 2003-12-05, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>Look at the text of Pullum and Ladusaw, p. 211. All those
>x-height forms are simply glyph variants. If someone is
>taking the cap-height form and *distinguishing* it as a
>capital letter, then fine, come up with a new encoding for
>it, but don't mess with the basic glottal stop itself.

How would you like to display that in the code charts? This seems
worse, much worse, than the INSULAR G that you didn't like.

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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com

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