At 22:49 +0500 2004-10-22, Peter Kirk wrote:
All of the examples of Egyptological ayin given in this PDF are in italic text. Thus the reference glyph which Michael has given is in fact based on an italic form.
I am aware of that.
Now this italic form looks very like an italic (i.e. basically slanted) form of U+02BD MODIFIER LETTER REVERSED COMMA. So, would an Egyptological ayin in non-italic text look just like a reversed comma?
It would not.
This is part of the history of these characters which needs to be investigated. Did the typesetters in fact start by taking an italic version of the Greek rough breathing character and reuse it for Egyptian?
Something like that. Please be patient.
This point of course does not deal with the casing issue.
Gardiner cases them; therefore we shall want casing pairs. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
