Re: COMBINING OVER MARK?

Hi Denis,

The editing distance between "neighbor" and "neighbour" is 1; neighboᵤr
would do.

Leo

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Denis Jacquerye <moyogo_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> This alternate orthography notation for (s|z) in criticise/criticize
> would be more fun if it was discussing (o|ou) in neighbor/neighbour.
> One shouldn’t think of a single character to represent the o over both
> ou, markup is easier.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny_at_eglug.org>
> wrote:
> > Well that paragraph is rich text; different fonts (roman and upright) at
> > different sizes (text and script size) pretty much makes it formated
> > text to me.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Khaled
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 10:19:24AM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote:
> >> Khaled,
> >>
> >> On a typewriter, the same effect can be achieved as
> >> "anathemati<half-interval up>s<BS><1 interval down>z<half-interval up>e"
> >>
> >> Where would the line between markup and typesetting languages be drawn?
> >>
> >> Leo
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny_at_eglug.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51:09PM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote:
> >> > > Hi All,
> >> > >
> >> > > Attached is a part of page 36 of Henry Alford's *The Queen's
> English: a
> >> > > manual of idiom and usage (1888)* [
> >> > > http://archive.org/details/queensenglishman00alfo]
> >> > >
> >> > > Is the way to indicate alternative s/z spellings used there plain
> text
> >> > > (arguably, if it can be done with a typewriter, it is plain text)
> >> >
> >> > I see a typeset book not an output of a typewriter.
> >> >
> >> > > or rich text (ignoring the font size of letters s and z)?
> >> > >
> >> > > If it's the latter, what's the markup to achieve it?
> >> >
> >> > Using TeX:
> >> >
> >> > \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$}
> >> >
> >> > 49. How are we to decide between {\it s} and {\it z} in such words
> as
> >> > anathemati\s{}e, cauteri\s{}e, criti\-ci\s{}e, deodori\s{}e,
> >> > dogmati\s{}e,
> >> > fraterni\s{}e, and the rest? Many of these are derived from Greek
> >> > \bye
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > Khaled
> >> >
> >
>
>
>
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