Re: New tool unidump

2017-03-17 Thread Janusz S. Bien
Quote/Cytat - Manuel Strehl (Fri 17 Mar 2017 09:44:15 PM CET): Hi, for my work on codepoints.net and Emojipedia I found myself repeatedly in a place, where I needed some tool like hexdump to inspect the content of a string. However, instead of raw bytes I am more interested in the code point

Re: New tool unidump

2017-03-17 Thread Manish Goregaokar
https://r12a.github.io/uniview/ https://r12a.github.io/apps/conversion/ are excellent tools for this, as well, if you're in a situation where you can copy into a web form. This looks useful for commandline stuff, though, thanks! -Manish On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Manuel Strehl wrote: >

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

New tool unidump

2017-03-17 Thread Manuel Strehl
Hi, for my work on codepoints.net and Emojipedia I found myself repeatedly in a place, where I needed some tool like hexdump to inspect the content of a string. However, instead of raw bytes I am more interested in the code points that the string is composed of. So I wrote this tool. I reasoned,

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 accent for the stressed syllable. >> > > You've u

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 appli

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 supports

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 anne

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 reverse! the stressed syllable in

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 need

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> Envi

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 syllables

Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

2017-03-17 Thread Rebecca T
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 syllables) to indicate stress patterns. Ex: ̆/ ̆ / ̆