> On 30 Apr 2019, at 04:32, Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode
> wrote:
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> On 4/29/19 3:34 PM, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
>> Hans Åberg wrote:
>>
>>> The guy who made the artwork for Heroes is completely color-blind,
>>> seeing only in a grayscale, so they agreed he coded the colors in
>>>
I don't think this is anything more than a macron stylised a particular way
in this typeface.
All the transcriptions I've seen of Bosworth-Toller use a macron.
James
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:43 AM Julian Bradfield via Unicode <
unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> The celebrated Bosworth-Toller
Does it also contrast with a circumflex? Historically, circumflexes were quite flexible in their graphical representation.
--Jörg Knappen
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Betreff: acute-macron hybrid?
The
On 4/30/2019 12:45 AM, Julian Bradfield via Unicode wrote:
What is its appropriate Unicode representation?
A macron.
--Ken
The celebrated Bosworth-Toller dictionary of Anglo-Saxon uses a
curious diacritic to mark long vowels. It may be described as a long
shallow acute with a small down-tick at the right.
It contrasts with an acute (quite steep in this typeface) used to mark
accented short vowels.
Both can be seen in
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