G. Adam Stanislav wrote on October 23:
Slovak texts always prefer
the apostrophe form for d, t, l, and L. We only use the other form
(the one that looks like a raised v) when we use typewriters that do not
have the apostrophe form but do have the caron, or when we write by
hand (it somehow
At 11:40 2001-10-25 -0400, Darren Morby wrote:
Thank you; this is the clarification I was seeking. Now when our
testers complain that this character looks wrong I am justified
in saying it's a typographical variant ... at least for these
letters.
You're welcome. I also have a page about Slovak
At 03:12 PM 10/24/01 -0400, tom emerson wrote:
Asmus Freytag writes:
FWIW, Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style, 2nd
Edition has in part this to say about caron:
Do you have the date of this book?
1996. It's a fabulous book, 'caron' aside:
I don't doubt that, but
At 06:49 10/23/2001, Darren Morby wrote:
Which is the preferred form, L with an actual caron or L with an apostrophe?
And should there not be a note on capital L like there is on small l? (The
note on small l does not say that it applies to capital L also.)
The apostrophe form (carka, I
The answer to this depends on someone with expertise in Slovak
typography coming forward.
The editorial committee would be happy to make any clarification
to the names list and text of the standard, if definitive information
about Slovak typography for the capital L-caron is forthcoming.
--Ken
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Darren Morby wrote:
In The Unicode Standard Version 3.0, the Latin small letters d l and t with
caron (U+010F, U+013E, U+0165) are actually shown with a trailing apostrophe
(d', l', t'). On each character there is the following note:
the form using apostrophe
Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron? Why aren't they
just L/l + '?
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At 11:35 2001-10-23 -0700, John Hudson wrote:
The apostrophe form (carka, I believe) is the preferred form for both the
upper and lowercase L. I have seen Slovak texts that use the regular
caron/hacek form for the uppercase L, but most display the apostrophe form.
I agree that a note would be
At 16:16 2001-10-23 -0500, David Starner wrote:
Why are these characters in Unicode as L/l with caron?
Because that's what they are.
Why aren't they just L/l + '?
Because that is something entirely different.
Adam
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