Re: [KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE: Re: psnfss and lw35nfss]


correct me if I'm wrong, but the unicode people have defined the
lonely accent circumflex? & it's not a linguistic glyph
(never used for itself)

The UNICODE people - like any good committee - are not of one mind on this.

On the one hand they explicitly state (at least in earlier versions)
that the non spacing' accents are provided for constructing composites,
yet also insist on listing all composites that actually occur.

There are also spacing' accents, by the way, whatever that is.  And
the non-spacing ones are non-sense since they are meant to accent the
character that comes before - nobody has though about the spacing /
kerning issues.

& They can't prevent mathematicians from inventing  thousands of new
notations when required ? You for sure know that the \hat / \vector
accents are used over any letters , resulting in composite glyphs
never seen in any language? So forgetting a dotlessj in Unicode, as
base for any accented variations of \j is an error. I don't know
abroad, but here in France, any teenager has used the basis
(\vec \i, \vec\j) of the euclidean plane once.

That is math.  And yes, there should be a dotlessj in a math font.

UNICODE only half-heartedly covers math.  Lucida New Math and
Lucida New Math Expert covers many more glyphs than are in UNICODE.
In fact, I have the feeling that the UNICODE committee may have
decided to orphan math support, thinking it is a msitake they
put it in in the first place.  Maybe barbara beeton knows more.

But you know, *anyone* can propose new characters to the UNICODE
committee :=) Maybe we should lobby for dotlessj.  Perhaps form a non
profit organization to give dotlessj its proper rights?

Regards, Berthold.