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- From: "tobias b koehler" <UKJP@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.fonts
- Subject: Re: help with accent design
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:55:45 +0100
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- pcj1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Pierre Jelenc):
- >
- > accented letters, including capitals. The problem is that there is not
- > enough free space above the letters as they are now to accomodate the accents
- > without bumping into the descenders from the preceeding line.
- >
- > I can see three possibitities:
- >
- > - Squeeze in the accents in whatever space there is and ignore the possi-
- > bility of collision with the descenders.
-
- Not a good possibility. OK if you only have few accents.
-
- > - Increase the headroom above the letters to accomodate the accents, and
- > ignore the increased leading this introduces. Since accented capitals
- > are rare, this increased blank space would most likely be quite noticeable.
- > In that case, should I designate the font by its original point size, or
- > should I take the increase into account?
-
- Yes, usually it is done this way. If you want accents, you also need
- the space for them.
-
- > - Squash the capitals that need an accent, so that the letter + accent fit
- > in the same space as the unaccented letter. Can that be done without
- > totally destroying the appearance of the letters?
-
- This is the way it was done for computer fonts and typewriters as well.
- It looks awful.
-
- In many fonts designed for German, or any language with accented caps,
- all the capitals are slightly smaller than lowercase letters with
- ascenders. This gives the possibility to have enough room for accents.
- However, this will not work with all designs -- for example it will
- not look good for "classical", or "modern" fonts like Bodoni.
- The problems mentioned here arise especially in Scandinavian. Here
- you need the A with ring, and the ring must be large enough not to be
- considered as a dot.
-
- So long
-
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