> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On BehalfOf Michael Everson
I was looking at a book on Cherokee phonetics today and 0294 was used in lower-case text word-internally. Now that's not necessarily a problem; PALOCHKA is also upper-case and is used word-internally. But I thought I'd mention it.
Are you saying they used a cap-height glyph word-initially and an x-height glyph elsewhere?
No. The Cherokee book (a sociolinguistic study of syllabary use) uses the tall one word-internally.
I've got a book on phonetics with some Comanche and Shoshone data that has A, E, I, � and U word-medially; they would have used these word-initially if that's where the voiceless vowel came. Neither this nor a cap-height 0294 in phonetic data (in any word position) is a problem. If the general category of 0294 were changed from Ll to Lu, that Cherokee data would not be harmed in any way that I can see.
I tend to agree, particularly in the context, which is just plain ordinary linguistic, not orthographic in any way.
(Particularly if it's printed in a book. BTW, how can something that represented digitally be in a physical book? :-)
We all need a weekend break. :-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
