[smufl-discuss] Re: Microtonal accidentals

Posted by Emil B. Wojtacki on
URL: http://smufl-discuss.219.s1.nabble.com/smufl-discuss-Re-Microtonal-accidentals-tp86.html

Grzegorz Rolek wrote:
>>>  From the coding point of view one could consider the up and down arrows also as diacritics. This would save some code points.
>> Agree, but because of some design issues, I would suggest, that the accidentals with _single_ arrow should have their codepoints.
> Not necessarily. You could always make a precomposed accidental-with-arrow glyph and switch to it on the <accidental, combining arrow> glyph sequence. Much like it's done with any other combining diacritic in a font that wants the diacritic to be joined to its base form more nicely than what's possible by the shaper's heuristics or anchoring mechanism.

I know, but, as Joe points out, there is still an issue with
implementation of this behaviour in html.



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