Re: Aramaic unification and information retrieval

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Dec 24 2003 - 03:16:11 EST

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    Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote:

    >> And this grid doesn't even particularly fit the characters.
    >> Two big rules of Latin typography are that the capital
    >> letters are all of the same size (visually, at least)
    >
    > Is this true for accented capitals or only for "English" letters?
    >
    > AÀÜUÇGJQO…
    >
    > Did I yet again read too fast?

    Maybe. Think "base letter," not "letter with combining diacritics."
    Also bear in mind that capital J and Q have no descender in some fonts.

    "All of the same height" might have been more precise.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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