bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 5:29 am
- Allow recognising combining diacritics as forming automatic multigraphs
I’m beginning to question whether this is really as good an idea as I thought. After all, if a combining diacritic forms a valid multigraph, then it should be listed in the
categories anyway, and therefore needs no special handling. And if it
doesn’t form a valid multigraph, then what business does Brassica have assuming that it does‽
The one case where it could be useful is very quick-and-dirty experimentation where you don’t even want to bother making
categories. But how often does that happen, anyway? When I do that, it’s mostly if I’m debugging, or otherwise using Brassica in a way it wasn’t specifically intended for.
Does anyone else have any particular preferences on this?
EDIT: Perusing previous conversations, I see Darren has explicitly mentioned this as an issue:
Darren wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 5:44 pm
It's intuitive enough; or at least, it's not counterintuitive – with the guide it's easily usable even for me. I have had trouble getting it to understand non-precomposed characters like <ɛ́ ɔ́ ɑ̃>; it keeps treating the accents separately for some reason.
Given the above logic, I’m curious to know what your specific problem was, and why writing out the
categories wasn’t enough to solve it?