Andrew Cunningham wrote:
Hi
2009/12/17 stuart yeates <[email protected]>:
If, however, you need to deal with characters which don't qualify for
inclusion in Unicode (or which do qualify but which haven't yet been
assigned code points). I recommend tei:glyph:
http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-glyph.html
We use this to represent typographically interesting but short-lived
approaches to the representation of Māori in printed works. See for example
the 'wh' ligature (which looks like a 'vh' and is pronounced in modern usage
like 'f') in the following text:
an interesting approach, although not the only way to address that
particular issue.
and depends on whether you want to treat it as a ligature or as a character.
Other approaches have been to :
1) use PUA assignments, e.g. the MUFI and SIL PUA
assignments/registries as examples; or
2) use U+200D to request ligation
On reflection, this is a subtly more general approach than our TEI one,
since this allows new non-glyph characters to be introduced as well as
new glyph characters.
OTOH, there are a limited number of PUA code-points, a constraint that
the TEI approach does not suffer.
[For those unfamiliar with Unicode PUA mechanisms, see
http://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#8 and
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/private_use_area.html ]
Both these approaches would require specifically defined or modified fonts.
In our case, when generating (X)HTML (our primary delivery formats) we
substitute character images cut from page scans of the original
documents. Generating the right HTML and CSS for this is non-trivial.
cheers
stuart
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Stuart Yeates
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