Peter Kirk <peter dot r dot kirk at ntlworld dot com> wrote: > Suppose for example I want to write a sentence like "In this language > the diacritic ^ may appear above the letters ...", but instead of ^ I > want to use a combining character, a regularly positioned centred > above the letter diacritic, which does not have a defined spacing > variant. I don't want a dotted circle. And I want it to be spaced as > here, i.e. with one space before the diacritic and one after it. It > seems to me that at one place in the standard I am told to encode > space - combining mark - space, for the combining mark will not > combine with the space because the space is not a base character; and > in another place I am implicitly told to encode space - space - > combining mark - space, because the second space acts as a carrier for > the combining mark.
space + (space + combining character) + space > Perhaps a simple way ahead would be to define a new character > something like COMBINING MARK HOLDER... Uhh, no. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
