Re: fontinst TS1.etx

[Joerg Knappen <KNAPPEN@ALPHA.NTP.SPRINGER.DE>]

Ulrik asked:

>Joerg: 
>Could you have a look at the documenation to see if the description
>really matches the intended purpose of the glyphs?

>\setslot{captialgrave}

spelling: it should read `capitalgrave'. The same for the other slots.

[capitalcompwordmark]

>   \comment{An invisible glyph, with zero width, depth and height.
>      It is used to stop ligaturing in words like `shelf{}ful'.}

It has (and should have in all virtual fonts) capital height, zero width 
and zero depth. It can carry accents to be placed between two capital letters.

The comment about ligature stopping is all right.

[ascendercompwordmark]

>   \comment{An invisible glyph, with zero width, depth and height.

This one has ascender height. This special height is part of its design.

[comma,period]

Those two are ín' in order to make it easier to typeset oldstyle decimal numbers
just by switching the font encoding to TS1. No macros are needed to access them.

[colonmonetary]

>  \comment{The monetary colon `\textcolonmonetary', similar to
>      a capital `C' with a vertical bar through the middle.}

better wording: The colon currency sign `\textcolonmonetary', similar to

(Remark: Colon, Named after Crisotbal Colon (Columbus) is the currency of 
Panama)

[peso]

>  \comment{The peso currency sign `\textpeso', similar to
>      a capital `P' with a horizontal bar below the bowl.}

In some fonts, the stroke is drawn through the bowl. This is essentially 
the same symbol.

[pilcrow]

>       a paragraph mark `\textparagraph' with a narrow stem.}
       a paragraph mark `\textparagraph' with a single stem.}

[circledP]

> \comment{A small `P' enclosed by a circle, `\textcircledP'.}

\comment{The sound recording copyright sign, similar to
a small `P' enclosed by a circle, `\textcircledP'.}

[referencemark]

>      similar to a divide-on-times symbol.}
      similar to a times sign with four dots.}

--J"org Knappen

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