At 15:17 -0600 2002-07-03, John H. Jenkins wrote: >On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 02:23 PM, Murray Sargent wrote: > >>as something inappropriate. Question: how does one code up (presumably >>with markup) a caret over a jk pair in a math expression? The dot on the >>j should be missing for this case, but how does one communicate that to >>a font if there's no code for a dotless j? It seems that dotless j is >>needed for some mathematical purposes. >> > >The glyph is; the character isn't. There are also accented j's >which are based on a dotless-j. The way we do it is include a glyph >called "dotlessj" in the font, and have the tables set up so that >whenever "j" is found with an accent, dotlessj is substituted.
This is a very good answer and should be in the FAQ. There may be a dotless j as a character in one of the Nordic phonetic alphabets. But even if there were, it would be wrong to use it for a decomposed Esperanto J WITH CIRCUMFLEX. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
