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From: | Phil Holmes |
Subject: | Re: Using strings and other types to return markup |
Date: | Wed, 11 May 2016 16:04:05 +0100 |
To: <address@hidden> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Using strings and other types to return markup
Hi Phil,On 11/05/2016, 9:12 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Phil Holmes" <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:2. It's a bit more complicated, though. 16th century printers have a habitof eliding an n from a word and instead putting what looks like (but might not be) a tiny tilde above the previous letter to show this.I was also wondering why you were not using Unicode. Anyway, do you have any images showing examples of this 16c practice? I would be interested to have a look. This is, as you say, a different requirement to using a fixed unicode glyph from a font. I think I have seen similar practice in 18c English printed text, but I don’t think the wiggles that I have seen are tildes as such. You are reaLly after something for text glyphs that is similar to an ornament on a note glyph.Now that I come to think of it, there is a vast typographic tradition of putting symbols on top of letters to mean various abbreviations, for example the old No. with a bar over the o to mean the abbreviation for number. A really interesting topic. The scheme code is definitely worth having in hand.
Here we go - late C16 (1597 to be precise). Note also the abbreviated "ye" - I think this is a tiny "e" above the "y".
--Phil Holmes
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