If my understanding of interlinear annotations is correct, to achieve similarity with the attached sample some markup will be required as well:
anathemati<sup><U+FFF9>z<U+FFFA>s<U+FFFB></sup>e. Leo On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Jean-François Colson <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 01/10/13 15:39, Philippe Verdy a écrit : > > In plain text, we would just use the [s|z] notation without care about > presentation & font sizes used in the rendered rich text page. It correctly > represent the intended alternation without giving more importance to one > base letter. > But it you wanted to allow plain text search with collators, you would > need to choose one as the base letter and the other one as a combining > diacritic with ignored higher-level differences, using either US English or > British/International English to fix the base letter (the other letter > would be an interlinear annotation for the second orthography, either above > or below the base letter). > > > Interlinear annotation… Yes, of course, you could write > anathemati<U+FFF9>z<U+FFFA>s<U+FFFB>e. Halas, the characters > U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR > U+FFFA INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR > U+FFFB INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR > are not supported by any software I know. > > > > > > > 2013/10/1 Steffen Daode <[email protected]> > >> Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: >> |Using TeX: >> | >> | \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$} >> >> Using groff: >> >> #!/bin/sh - >> >> cat << \! > t.tr >> .de zs >> . nr #1 \\w'z' >> \\Z'\ >> \\v'-.25v's\ >> \\h'-\\n(#1u'\ >> \\v'.5v'z\ >> '\ >> \\h'\\n(#1u' >> . rr #1 >> .. >> Fraterni >> .zs >> e. >> ! >> >> groff t.tr > t.ps >> ps2pdf t.ps >> rm t.tr t.ps >> exit 0 >> >> (Can surely be tweaked.) >> >> |Regards, >> |Khaled >> >> Ciao, >> >> --steffen >> >> >> ---------- Message transféré ---------- >> From: Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> >> To: Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> >> Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:09:31 +0200 >> Subject: Re: COMBINING OVER MARK? >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 05:51:09PM -0700, Leo Broukhis wrote: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Attached is a part of page 36 of Henry Alford's *The Queen's English: a >> > manual of idiom and usage (1888)* [ >> > http://archive.org/details/queensenglishman00alfo] >> > >> > Is the way to indicate alternative s/z spellings used there plain text >> > (arguably, if it can be done with a typewriter, it is plain text) >> >> I see a typeset book not an output of a typewriter. >> >> > or rich text (ignoring the font size of letters s and z)? >> > >> > If it's the latter, what's the markup to achieve it? >> >> Using TeX: >> >> \def\s{${}^{\rm s}_{\rm z}$} >> >> 49. How are we to decide between {\it s} and {\it z} in such words as >> anathemati\s{}e, cauteri\s{}e, criti\-ci\s{}e, deodori\s{}e, >> dogmati\s{}e, >> fraterni\s{}e, and the rest? Many of these are derived from Greek >> \bye >> >> Regards, >> Khaled >> >> > >
