Irish dotless i

[Michael Everson]

Perhaps an anecdote about typesetting Irish text 
with taste is in order. When I typeset Nicholas 
Williams' wonderful Irish translation of Alice's 
Adventures in Wonderland I had occasion to use 
some fancy Roman fonts for the chapter headings. 
One of these, Mona Lisa Recut, has a tall and 
pointy dot on the lower-case "i", which looks 
particularly bad when in the context of accented 
"�". In setting the Irish titles, I substituted 
the dotless "�" for it -- and in doing so, I 
rendered the text unsuitable for spell-checking 
or text searching, because dotless "�" is not a 
letter used in Irish orthography. A picture of 
the cover is at 
http://www.evertype.com/gram/eilis-cover.jpg and 
information on the book in general is at 
http://www.evertype.com/gram/eachtrai-eilise.html
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com