Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-07 Thread Philippe Verdy
This is the same thing as: . : * === / - TTT You can use any characters (punctuation, symbols, even letters) or graphics aligned in a row to create such

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-06 Thread Leo Broukhis
Also, or rather foremost, to U+2766 ❦ FLORAL HEART ❦ - what does the (almost) connecting vine remind me of? Hmmm... Leo 2016-05-06 21:54 GMT-07:00 António Martins-Tuválkin : > On 2016.05.04 07:54, Julian Bradfield wrote: > > See http://xkcd.com/1676/ >> (making sure to

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-06 Thread António Martins-Tuválkin
On 2016.05.04 07:54, Julian Bradfield wrote: See http://xkcd.com/1676/ (making sure to look at the mouse-over text) The new snake character needs to have in its remarks field see-also links to these: U+115F HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER U+1160 HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER U+3164 HANGUL FILLER : chaeum

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-06 Thread Philippe Verdy
My opjion is that the choice of graphics for these fillers is just a matter of style. A single filler (format control) would be enough to encode (simplying later the text handling in order to ignore them for plain text searches or collation). These fillers are only made for specific text layouts

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-06 Thread Marcel Schneider
On Wed, 4 May 2016 08:27:55 +0100, Richard Wordingham wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:54:48 +0100 (BST) > Julian Bradfield wrote: > > > See > > http://xkcd.com/1676/ > > (making sure to look at the mouse-over text) > > I though kashida (TATWEEL) was a precedent not to be followed. The > issue

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Doug Ewell
1F40D FE0F The VS just makes extra, extra sure that it’s emoji. -- Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Leonardo Boiko
2016-05-04 4:14 GMT-03:00 Shriramana Sharma : > Isn't there some Japanese orthography feature that already does > something like this? Japanese (and Chinese) vertical calligraphy can do arbitrary-length stretching of lines (like the Arabic kashida under discussion, and like

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Philippe Verdy
Those "snakes" do exist in Arabic for justification purpose (they are formatting controls insertable between pairs of joined letters and possibly used as base holders for diacritics). Otherwise they are just normal "filler" (punctuation-like symbols like leader dots, otherwise "crap text"). The

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Simon Cozens
On 04/05/2016 17:07, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > Very nice! The SILE typesetting engine now implements full support for this new justification strategy. Please see http://www.sile-typesetter.org/

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Khaled Hosny
That sounds more like traditional Tibetan justification than kashida: http://rishida.net/scripts/tibetan/#justification On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote: > Arabic has tatweel/kashida for justification; rather similar in principle. > >

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Richard Wordingham
On Wed, 4 May 2016 07:54:48 +0100 (BST) Julian Bradfield wrote: > See > http://xkcd.com/1676/ > (making sure to look at the mouse-over text) I though kashida (TATWEEL) was a precedent not to be followed. The issue of course, is that chained snakes do not reflow well,

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
Arabic has tatweel/kashida for justification; rather similar in principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashida Mark On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Isn't there some Japanese orthography feature that already does > something like this? > > -- >

RE: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Tex Texin
Non-breaking snake is English for Kashida right? -Original Message- From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-boun...@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Julian Bradfield Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 11:55 PM To: unicode@unicode.org Subject: non-breaking snakes See http://xkcd.com/1676/ (making sure to look

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Isn't there some Japanese orthography feature that already does something like this? -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

Re: non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Davis ☕️
Very nice! Mark On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: > See > http://xkcd.com/1676/ > (making sure to look at the mouse-over text) > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

non-breaking snakes

2016-05-04 Thread Julian Bradfield
See http://xkcd.com/1676/ (making sure to look at the mouse-over text) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.