On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 08:31:22PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
- The deciding moment when some of these ugly tricks have been thrown away was when we realized that if you do add those tricks, there is no way to print the grave accent. (Grave accent will be automatically converted to the same "comma" that you get in quotation marks.) In good old TeX the grave accent (`) and the character that you get when you type ` are at two different slots. In Unicode-encoded fonts that's not doable. This means that if one wants to enable the `` trick then there's no way to allow composite characters with grave accent or the character ` in typewriter font. In most cases that is not a problem since Unicode fonts usually support a wide range of characters, but I already had to use a character not present in Unicode. And that was not doable until the hack has been removed.
Now, I feel there is some thing wrong here, (`) is not an accent (despite it misleading Unicode name), but rather a spacing character, so typing n` to get ǹ is wrong; you should use (̀ ) instead (this is U+0300), since the later is the combining grave accent while the former is a spacing character. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer