Re: Characters LAM and ALIF together (ligature) in Arabic

2012-03-27 Thread Jeremie Hornus
On 26 Mar 2012, at 09:08, Escape Landsome wrote: The problem is by now (in my mailer) it appears as (the ligature) + ALIF, which is incorrect That is a problem. On the website, it appears as (plain LAM) + (plain ALIF), which is incorrect too That is OK. This ligature was introduced

Re: Combining latin small letters with diacritics

2012-03-27 Thread Jeremie Hornus
On 26 Mar 2012, at 13:35, Denis Jacquerye wrote: So far the linguistic atlases I have seen extensively use this combining letter mechanism, with diacritics changing the meaning of the combining letter or of the base letter. There are a whole lot of notations that could simply be base

Re: vertical writing mode of modern Yi?

2012-03-27 Thread Andrew West
On 27 March 2012 06:18, suzuki toshiya mpsuz...@hiroshima-u.ac.jp wrote: Is there any typesetted material of modern Yi syllabic script in vertical writing mode? Probably nothing more than titles on book spines and names of government offices written on gate pillars. However, I believe that