[Egyptian] On "A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text" (2016-07-23)

[Michael Everson]

On 25 Jul 2016, at 17:16, Bob Richmond <bobqq at live.co.uk> wrote:
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> Congratulations for being the first to (heartfully) express public support for a representation of MdC X1:R1 that uses  3 control characters. 

Well, I don’t.

“Ligate X with Y” does not tell font developers anything. This is why the five controls are superior, and why a generic ligator is dangerous, because if you end up with six controls then you will have multiple spellings for many many many clusters.

Michael.