On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Győző Dobner wrote:
> I would like to know if there is any combining diacritical that can be
> added after vowel characters to denote vowel length as distinguished from
> syllable length (or, to use W. S. Allen's preferred term, "syllable weight")
> to be used with the Classical Greek and Latin languages. In case there is no
> standard code point for this purpose, is there any Unicode-compliant way to
> encode this feature that someone competent can recommend instead? I would
> like to know this because I have some remote plans to produce a custom font
> that uses glyphs for long Classical Greek (and perhaps Latin) vowels (long
> Alpha, Iota and Upsilon in particular) that are distinguishable both from
> their short counterparts and also from a possibly ambiguous corresponding
> vowel+macron combination, and I do not want to encode this font in a
> non-standard way. I would need this because a vowel+macron combination is
> also used sometimes to denote syllable length ("weight") in syllables where
> the vowel actua!
lly happens to be short.
You could employ the macron for intrinsic vowel length and the triangular colon
(U+02D0) for syllable length. I'd think most people would read that easily
without even needing an explanation.
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