Ken Whistler wrote on 06/19/2003 01:35:14 PM: > In Bopomofo these tone marks are typeset in a separate > vertical line to the right of the vertical line of > Bopomofo. In horizontal typesetting, they are either > over the top of the Bopomofo or set at the upper-right > shoulder of the Bopomofo character representing the > 'final' of a syllable. > > It is possible that they were originally designed by a > dyslexic based on the Chao tone letters, but no, they > are not really intended to be used as particular values > of those or as an augmentation of those tone letters. Instead, > as I indicated, they are used with another collection of > tonal diacritics for extended Bopomofo. > > So no, they glyphs haven't been munged. But these obviously > need better annotation for the names list.
That sounds, then, like these are *not* two of the left-stemmed tone letters (mirrors of 02E5..02E9) that I'm going to be including in a proposal for additional modifier characters for tone. - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Constable Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA Tel: +1 972 708 7485
