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- From: churchyh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Henry Churchyard)
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: help with accent design
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 04:57:53 GMT
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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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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