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

[Bob Richmond]

I've no problem with some kind of 4 corner system in theory and spent some time over last two weeks trying to come up with a workable version that isn't insanely complicated. Incidentally nobody to date has actually said how they might like it to work so I've been on my own.

Apart from Mark-Jan et al (in http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16210-egyptian-control.pdf)  who propose that a "Cobra with group tucked inside" should be encoded with the group preceding the Cobra. For the common and simple example 'Dd' (Cobra containing hand) he proposes the 'd' hieroglyph comes before the 'D' in the code sequence. I'm actually quite shocked that several experienced Egyptologists want to do this.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Egyptian [mailto:egyptian-bounces at evertype.com] On Behalf Of Michael Everson
Sent: 27 July 2016 18:29
To: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS <egyptian at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Egyptian] On "A system of control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic text" (2016-07-23)

On 25 Jul 2016, at 17:16, Bob Richmond <bobqq at live.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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. 
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