Robert Wheelock asked: > Recently, I read some messages saying that there're 3 new > double-wide overstruck accents are proposed for Unicode:
Umm. Well, they aren't "double-wide" and they aren't "overstruck", and their names are not: > 035D: double-wide breve > 035E: double-wide macron > 035F: double-wide underbar (d-w combining low line) but rather: 035D COMBINING DOUBLE BREVE 035E COMBINING DOUBLE MACRON 035F COMBINING DOUBLE LOW LINE > Please send me more info (and some documentation) on those accents. These would occur in sequences such as: <o, combining double breve, o> to give the effect of a breve stretched over a pair of o's, as often seen in Webster-style dictionary pronunciation guides. Technically, the combining double accents combine with the base letter they follow, but their glyphs would be designed so that they would overhang a following base letter as well. In practice, fonts might simply choose to have ligatures for the entire sequence, to avoid complications of calculating the accent positions dynamically. For more examples, just look in dictionary pronunciation guides. --Ken
