----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "William Overington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: (long) Re: Chromatic font research

> This isn't limited to ligatures, either.  Font designers also regularly
> include a glyph for U+00E1 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE.  You can
> either encode U+00E1 directly and see the glyph, or you can encode
> U+0061 U+0301 (a �) and get the same glyph.  This doesn't even require
> OpenType, just non-spacing glyphs.

This does require the use of OpenType since the accent should be placed at
different places for different characters.

Stefan


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