7 hours ago
I don't remember Marco and Emma's work on yk after an image - do you have a link? It sounds interesting.
Have you seen their work on hard vs soft glyphs? There's a categorization of them in the journal article but Emma takes it further on her blog.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.where she suggests certain glyphs like o are being inserted to avoid certain word break combinations. That sounds similar to what you're suggesting here.
I think someone also previously mentioned a similarity between rare word break combinations and rare letter pairs within words...maybe it was Emma, or maybe Patrick, I can't remember. I'd be careful, though, about connecting a lack of /nk/ or /mk/ inside words with a lack of n.k or m.k word break combinations - can we distinguish a general aversion to these glyphs being close from the influence of positional constraints? i.e. n and m are almost always found at end of word so they have little prospect of being close inside a word.
Have you seen their work on hard vs soft glyphs? There's a categorization of them in the journal article but Emma takes it further on her blog.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.where she suggests certain glyphs like o are being inserted to avoid certain word break combinations. That sounds similar to what you're suggesting here.
I think someone also previously mentioned a similarity between rare word break combinations and rare letter pairs within words...maybe it was Emma, or maybe Patrick, I can't remember. I'd be careful, though, about connecting a lack of /nk/ or /mk/ inside words with a lack of n.k or m.k word break combinations - can we distinguish a general aversion to these glyphs being close from the influence of positional constraints? i.e. n and m are almost always found at end of word so they have little prospect of being close inside a word.