Quote:PS/ Anton. You have supported me in Russian forum last year, when I first started talking about the existence of the character "horizontal line". What do you meant: the particular glyphs or all of the options, "benches"?
Already don't remember that discussion, sorry.
I believe that the horizontal line (let's call it "hyphen" for brevity) is a separate character which can be appended (e.g. e + hyphen = c) or prepended (e.g. hyphen + e = h) to "major" glyphs, thus creating more complex glyphs. That we don't meet it as a standalone character (do we?) means that it is of auxiliary nature.
Basically, I am inclined to look on the whole glyph system as of a set of possible "superpositions" of basic characters (base shapes, tail modifiers, hyphen etc.), which I already expressed back then when Brian published his "curve-line" article.