At 09:06 -0500 2002-03-30, Jerome Hodges IV wrote: >Hi all, > >I wrote before about typesetting Vietnam Highlands documents, and, for the >most part, all of my problems have been resolved (thanks to all who made >suggestions). The one character I'm still missing, however, is a capital B >with a dash (in the glyph, the dash is typically written through the bottom >half of the vertical line). Does anyone else need this character? Does >anyone have suggestions before I propose this as a new character in Unicode?
Old Saxon editions use small b-stroke. >From: R. F. Hahn > >I have inspected a number of facsimiles of Old Saxon texts and did not >come across any crossed capital "b". I believe that this is because >this letter cannot occur word-initially, and these texts are all in >gothic- and uncial-style scripts with no all-capital portions. However, >I will keep looking. > >A capital version of the letter would, in my opinion, only be needed for >all-caps portions in modern use. If such a letter were created I would >suggest that only the left-hand bar be crossed rather than the entire >top. I'd favour the modern Vietnamese use for the glyph in Unicode. Jerome, can you get me a scan or two? -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
