William Overington scripsit: > As first letter and second letter could be theoretically almost any other > Unicode characters, would the approach be to just place all three glyphs > superimposed onto the screen and hope that the visual effect is reasonable > or would a font have a special glyph within it for each of the permutations > of three characters which the font designer thought might reasonably occur > yet default to a superimposing of three glyphs for any unexpected > permutation which arises?
Depending on font support, there could be a glyph for this combination, or the default could be used, which is that the combining mark is positioned over the first character in such a way that it hangs over the presumed space for the next character (hopefully more or less correctly). -- Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Deshil Holles eamus. Send us, bright one, light one, Horhorn, quickening, and wombfruit. (3x) Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! Hoopsa, boyaboy, hoopsa! -- Joyce, _Ulysses_, "Oxen of the Sun" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
