Some readers may remember the thread An unusual glyph of an Esperanto character in the Arno font.
The following line of poetry was mentioned.
En la ĝardeno de monaĥ
There should be an apostrophe at the end.
En la ĝardeno de monaĥ’
Well, the Maestro Pro font has several swash glyphs for ĥ.
They are located in the range U+E7E3 to U+E7EF, Alt 59363 through to Alt 59375.
Yes, 13 of them!
Their potential uses vary as one, maybe two, are for only the start of a word and some, four of them, only for the finish of a word.
Page 7 of the character map displays them all, about three-quarters of the way down the table, though one, U+E7E7 is clipped at the top in the table, but it is an h circumflex and, with care, works well in the Try Font facility.
U+E7E7 Alt 59367
It can be displayed by copying the following two lines as a pair and pasting them into the text area of the Try Font facility and then clicking the Change Sample Text button.
En la ĝardeno de monaĥ’
En la ĝardeno de mona’
Four of them appear to be suitable only for use at the end of a word. That is an amazing amount of choice for such a rarely used character and then in such a rarely used circumstance. Wow!
William Overington
20 January 2010