- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:20:11 -0800
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: 'fantasai' <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote: > For more on this (and perhaps a relevant question ;) see > http://rishida.net/blog/?p=101 Thanks. I shall investigate. > Note that in my example one of the emphasis marks is placed such that it > straddles two characters (the one to the far right) in order to appear > in the centre of a syllable. This is presumably would be much harder to > do using Unicode characters embedded in the string itself... We had the same issue with the masora circle mark in Hebrew. The work around in that case was that a user could choose to have the mark positioned between two letters, instead of the default positioning over the preceding letter, by inserting a ZWNJ control character before the mark.* I'm doubtful that would work in a more complex script in which ZWNJ might have a defined shaping role. *See page 15 of the SBL Hebrew user manual: http://www.sbl-site.org/Fonts/SBLHebrewUserManual1.5x.pdf JH
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