On 2004.05.15, 05:41, Doug Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most people are not typographers or typography experts. Most, in > fact, are not the slightest bit interested in typography issues.
Precisely my point. So, since normal Russians are unaware of the variation in the middle stroke of U+042D, and since russian typographers consider it a purely decorative item, why would Mongolians think otherwise? Indeed, if their goal were to deviate from Russian typographic tradition they wouldn't have adopted the Cyrillic script in the first place, right?... What's then the story behind the alternate glyph for U+042D and its rationale in the SIL Doulos font as given by the online document <Doulos SIL 4.0 Font Documentation.pdf>? >> Provides alternates for Cyrillic letters with the central >> horizontal stroke slightly curved, as is appropriate for Mongolian. Cf. http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?site_id=nrsi&format=file&media_id=DoulosSIL4.0.10.zip -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| PT-1XXX-XXX LISBOA N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
