Re: Overstruck glyphs (WAs: Re: Tamil Syllabary Chart link reposted)

> From: Nicholas Bodley [mailto:nbodley@...]





> > Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> >

> >> As to computer typography, I keep hoping for being able to combine

> >> modifier diacritics with the character they modify, in something

like a

> >> multilingual editor. "Overstruck" characters, such as one could do

so

> >> easily in a typewriter, don't seem to be even thought about,

although

> >> doing that is really easy, basically; it's no more than a Boolean

> >> logical

> >> inclusive-OR of their respective bitmaps, to be somewhat technical.

> >

> > You can do them in Word.

> >

> > Not so easily as in Word 5.1, but you can still do them.

>

> Thanks, Peter. I guess I'll hold on to Office 97, in that case.

I suppose somewhere there's a prior context to this thread, though
people on this list seem sometimes to be overly (not overley :-)
enthusiastic about revising the subject line, so if there's a prior
context I have no idea where it is.



So, you want a word processor that will do a decent job of positioning
combining marks over/under a base character? Is this for any script in
particular?



If I've understood right what you want, you're far better off with Word
2003 than either Word 97 or Word 5.1 (a Mac version).



For instance, I can set something like the following in Word using the
Doulos SIL font (shown here as an image since your system might not
render the plain text as intended):









Peter Constable



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