[ANSTHRLD] Da'ud notation
Tim McDaniel
tmcd at panix.com
Fri Jul 29 09:01:29 PDT 2005
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Maridonna <maridonna at maridonna.com> wrote:
> I'm using Da'ud notation here -
> Geirr Bassi Haraldsson. The Old Norse Name Fleck, G., Studia Marklandic
> Series (Olney, Maryland: Yggsalr Press, 1977),
> p.9 Bru'nn, p.12 Jo'hann. <Brunn Jo'hansson>.
I'm afraid that that's not Da'ud notation. Da'ud notation puts the
representation of an accented character in curly braces, {..}. That's
so you can tell the difference between
D{a'}ud == Dáud, four characters long, where the second character
is "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE"
and
Da{'u}d == Daùd, four characters long, where the third character
is "LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE"
and
Da'ud, five characters, the middle of which happens to be an
apostrophe
Da'ud notation is simple for Western European languages. For example,
{'a} à à
{a'} á á
{a^} â â
{a~} ã ã
{a:} ä ä
{ao} å å
{ae} æ æ
{c,} ç ç
A grave accent, one that goes like \, is represented as {'x} rather
than the more expected {x`}, using a backquote (usually upper left on
a US keyboard). That's because, in some fonts, it's hard to see the
difference between apostrophe versus backquote, ' versus `.
" is often used for umlaut, so {a"} is often used as a synonym for
{a:}. (That causes a problem for one Hungarian character, of course.)
The only two I can think of that are not really intuitive from those
examples are
{dh} ð ð
{th} þ þ
I believe that the Academy of Saint Gabriel uses / and \, without
curly braces, to indicate acute and grave accents. I don't know what
they do about other accents, nor how they represent LATIN
SMALL/CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE, nor how they distinguish slash for
alternatives (as in SMALL/CAPITAL) from slash as acute accent.
Dannet "a special character" de Linccolne
--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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