Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread Lee
On 1/19/16, David E. Ross wrote: > On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> I just wrote: >>> In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use >>> the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: >>> ... she does routinely

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread Lee
On 1/20/16, Ray_Net wrote: > David E. Ross wrote on 20/01/2016 05:34: >> >> On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> >>> I just wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303),

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
WaltS48 wrote: Both Plain text and HTML look fine to me. My font selection for display of plain text messages is Fixed Width. Never heard of "Fixed Width" as a font name. Can you clarify? And where are you setting that pref? On my system, I can't find any way to control the display of

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread WaltS48
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: WaltS48 wrote: Both Plain text and HTML look fine to me. My font selection for display of plain text messages is Fixed Width. Never heard of "Fixed Width" as a font name. Can you clarify? Not without doing some searching. And where are you setting that pref? On

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
WaltS48 wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: And where are you setting that pref? On my system, I can't find any way to control the display of plain-text messages, though I can specify fonts for various encodings (Western, Unicode, etc.) and for "Monospace" within each. Edit | Preferences |

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread WaltS48
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. At 1:15, it occurs in "many" [mɛ̃ɾi] (I've used "ɛ̃" for nasalized [ɛ], which

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread David E. Ross
On 1/19/2016 9:51 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> I just wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: > ...

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread »Q«
In , "Paul B. Gallagher" wrote: > In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use > the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: > > > ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-20 Thread Ray_Net
WaltS48 wrote on 20/01/2016 18:52: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: WaltS48 wrote: Both Plain text and HTML look fine to me. My font selection for display of plain text messages is Fixed Width. Never heard of "Fixed Width" as a font name. Can you clarify? Not without doing some searching. And

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-19 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
I just  wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. At 1:15,

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-19 Thread David E. Ross
On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: > I just wrote: >> In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use >> the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: >> >>> ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. >>> >>> At 1:15, it occurs in

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-19 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
David E. Ross wrote: On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the result: ... she does routinely flap /t,d,n/ like most Americans. At 1:15, it occurs

Re: Combining characters

2016-01-19 Thread Ray_Net
David E. Ross wrote on 20/01/2016 05:34: On 1/19/2016 7:29 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: I just wrote: In a discussion of American English phonetics, I had occasion to use the combining tilde (U+0303), but was surprised at the