From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Tue Jun 13 2006 - 18:01:03 CDT
Kenneth Whistler wrote on Tuesday June 13, 2006 at 10:32 PM
> An arbitrary-length spanning undertie or overtie is in
> principle more related to other mechanisms of highlighting
> arbitrary segments of text, such as underscoring,
> overscoring, and the like. I think the representation of
> such in digital text should be handled by style and
> markup, rather than by seeking solutions in character
> encoding.
But what mark-up system supports slurs on *parts* of words? Was providing
slurs for music a mistake? Moreover underscoring (U+0332) (and double
underscoring - U+0333) and overscoring (U+0305) are supported by Unicode.
Richard.
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