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Subscript letters
Posted by Sindre in
6 Nov 2011 — 12:40pm
6 Nov 2011 — 12:40pm
Unicode points 2090–2094 are described as subscript a, e, o, x and schwa. The official Unicode chart says nothing about the usage of those glyphs, and I can't seem to find information on them elsewhere. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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6 Nov 2011 — 5:30pm
Subscript e is used to indicate eletrons and also in Euler notation for derivatives. Subscripts a, e, and x are used in logarithms.
6 Nov 2011 — 11:18pm
Thank you very much, Igor. Only the schwa to worry about now ...
7 Nov 2011 — 8:39am
These were put into Unicode for historical linguistics, where there can be an obligatory semantic difference between the subscript and non-subscript letters:
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2788.pdf
7 Nov 2011 — 9:43am
Than you ever so much, David. Much appreciated. I really should have known this! (May I be redeemed by the fact that my two typefaces in the works already support reconstructed Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Norse, and have stylistic sets for Transcribed Gothic.)