----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Patrick Andries <Patrick dot Andries at xcential dot com> wrote: > > >> And this grid doesn't even particularly fit the characters. > >> Two big rules of Latin typography are that the capital > >> letters are all of the same size (visually, at least) > > > > Is this true for accented capitals or only for "English" letters? > > > > AÃÃUÃGJQOâ > > > > Did I yet again read too fast? > > Maybe. Think "base letter," not "letter with combining diacritics." Well, I think this is better said by the writer then implicitly thought by the reader ;-) > Also bear in mind that capital J and Q have no descender in some fonts. A minority, I would think, for Q and this right from lapidary capitals and there are also some capital P and Y that extend below the baseline (Fraktur for instance, unless this is not Latin). But okay, this is not a Unicode issue but a font design issue. P. A.
