Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Michael Everson
http://www.brill.com/files/brill.nl/special_scripts_metrical_characters_unicode.pdf

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2017-03-17, Philippe Verdy wrote: > 2017-03-17 18:27 GMT+01:00 Julian Bradfield : > >> If you are happy to use a typographically normal combining breve for >> the unstressed syllables, you should be happy to use a typographically >> normal acute

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Ken Whistler
On 3/17/2017 10:27 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote: If you're working in a situation where you don't have either markup control or the facility to use plain monospaced text, then just use normal breves and acutes. It's not clear to me that laying out aligned text (for which there are many other

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
An article for you to read that privides some basic guides and a presentaiton of the concept and its use in HTML: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character Then look at CSS 2.0 for specifications. In Unicode, 3 format control characters were encoded for this (U+FFF9...U+FFFB), but that

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
Final note: the HTML ruby syntax (their standard tags) is not supported by MediaWiki, for your example article in English Wikipedia (but there are some templates that could simulate ruby notation, using equivalent CSS to which the ruby notation should have a default mapping, as specified in an

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
2017-03-17 18:27 GMT+01:00 Julian Bradfield : > If you are happy to use a typographically normal combining breve for > the unstressed syllables, you should be happy to use a typographically > normal acute accent for the stressed syllable. > You've understood the

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Philippe Verdy
Isn't this a use case for interlinear annotations ? What is the current status of interlinear encoding? We were told that the encoded codepoints for these are more or less deprecated (but in HTML there's still interlinear annotation supported by ruby notations). In these annotations, we don't

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread eduardo marin
You would need to propose the entire set of symbols, like the caret the reverse solidus and the x above, furthermore you would need to make the solidus small so it doesn't interfere with the line of text above. So go for it. De: Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com>

Re: Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Julian Bradfield
On 2017-03-17, Rebecca T <637...@gmail.com> wrote: > When transcribing poetic meter (scansion >), it is common to use two symbols > above the line (usually a breve [U+306 ̆] for stressed syllables and a > solidus > / slash [U+2F /] for unstressed