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Computer-friendly nactation methodology for variant/family symbols

Posted By: storm
Date: Friday, 4 February 2011, at 9:33 p.m.

In Response To: Computer-friendly nactation methodology for variant/family symbols (Matt Ryder)

I am yet to really implement the use of nactation in my bg tools as I have chosen to wait until there is a "stable" version of nactation. While the mixture of meaning and layout/typography is a nuisance in certain situations, I doubt the extra layer needed for eg. storing representations (or maybe it's the other way around :) of nactation symbols in a db is something insurmountable. You have a primary letter (ascii or whatever) and then an int of appropriate size with the bits representing which decorations of the primary letter is toggled. Then there is an ioata of book-keeping to do when presenting the symbol, but that is exactly what computers are good for :)

But I agree, not being able to use your favourite editor (Vim !) to nactate is a minus.

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