Tom To form the combinations without using PUA code-points I think you would need to use some kind of "smart" font format system like OpenType, Graphite or AAT.
This is exactly how e.g. Indic scripts work - there is no need of characters or code-points for the combining glyph forms of letters or for pre-composed combinations. - Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Gewecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 4:56 PM Subject: Byzantine Musical Symbols Questions > In helping someone work on a font for Byzantine musical symbols (1D000 > -1D0FF) we noticed that there was no encoding of either precomposed or > combining symbols, despite the fact that many or most of them do not occur > in isolation. As a result, using these symbols in plain text is not very > practical, aside from employing the PUA for the necessary combinations. > Chapter 14.10 of TUS 4.0 does note that the manipulation of these symbols > is outside its scope. A couple questions: > 1) Can anyone provide links to documents that would help better understand > how this came about? > 2) Are there currently any proposals to add combining versions of any of > these symbols to the Standard? > 3) Is anyone on the list aware of any markup language or composing > applications (any platform) that can use the current encoding to produce > Byzantine musical notation?
