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6 Replies Last post: Jan 16, 2010 6:18 PM by Robert Shiplett  
Robert Shiplett MVP 218 posts since
Oct 17, 2007
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Jan 1, 2010 8:09 PM

text formats

The use of explicit tonic accent over-strike is becoming more common in Cyrillic to disambiguate words and as a teaching aid.

 

Curl currently has {underline } and {line-through}.

 

A text format for a configurable {double-strike } or {over-strike } would permit placement of a major or minor accent over a character in a visual TextPart.

 

If configurable, the feature could be toggled for a given TextDisplay, page or reading level or exercise.

 

For phonetic transliterations, underline remains as common as bold emphasis (in Russian, the tonic accent is more significant than in English and alters vowel values before and after.)

 

For English language instruction, the classic example is: "Tomorrow the band will record a new record." with the accent changing syllable from verb to noun.

Bert Halstead Level 6 38 posts since
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2. Jan 6, 2010 9:46 AM in response to: Robert Shiplett
Re: text formats

Robert, I think you'll find that Curl supports the Unicode combining diacriticals such as macron if you're using a font that contains them.  I'm not sure whether this is what you're looking for or whether you really want to be able to draw a continuous line over a sequence of characters.

Bert Halstead Level 6 38 posts since
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5. Jan 15, 2010 2:30 PM in response to: Robert Shiplett
Re: text formats

Robert, thanks for all your input.  I think you are now more knowledgeable about macrons (in particular!) than anybody on the Curl team.  They ought to work but if you find any surprising behaviors, please let us know.

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