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Article #2788Re: help with accent design
From: Henry Churchyard
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:57
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:57
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In article <1k1d3hINNeh7@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> "tobias b koehler" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET> writes:
>
>pcj1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Pierre Jelenc):
>>
>> The problem is that there is not
>> enough free space above the [capital] letters as they are now to accomodate
>> the accents without bumping into the descenders from the preceeding line.
>>
>
>In many fonts designed for German, or any language with accented caps,
>all the capitals are slightly smaller than lowercase letters with
>ascenders. This gives the possibility to have enough room for accents.
Actually, in German one strategy adopted is to move the umlaut dots
apart to accomodate the top of A or O, or inside the top of U:
* /\ * * /~~\ * | * * |
/__\ ( ) | |
/ \ \__/ \___/
Similarly, in printing Greek the accents and breathing marks go
_beside_ capital letters,instead of on top of them.
--
--Henry Churchyard churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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