Re: IPA font for nasalized close central unrounded vowel

"Sonja Elen Kisa" <sonjaaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1193393460.616208.67140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm trying to get the tilde to line up properly over the symbol for a
close central unrounded vowel using the font Charis SIL in Word (Win
XP). What am I doing wrong? It seems to overlap with the dot of the
vowel and is hard to make out.

As you aren't Lithuanian, you're getting the right result, although apparently for the wrong reason. Small 'i's and 'j's are supposed to lose their dot when a diacritic is placed above them - this is the official ruling of the Unicode consortium, at least. If you wanted a dot to appear there you should express it as an explicit diacritic - even if you were Lithuanian. (This is a change from the earlier official position.) The Unicode jargon for letters that lose a dot like this is 'soft dotted'. Thus, the Unicode character sequences should be:

No intervening dot: <U+0268 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE, U+0303 COMBINING TILDE>
With intervening dot: <U+0268, U+0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE, U+0303>

James Kass's Code2002 font gives me this behaviour with Notepad and OpenOffice (SIL OpenOffice 2.02, in case the version matters) on Windows XP, but not in Word 2002. Unfortunately, he has not implemented this behaviour for LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE, perhaps because there is no *LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I WITH STROKE, so he would have had to add a glyph as well as modifying the GSUB table within the font.

Richard.

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