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The Beeb has an article today about treason laws. The usual scepticism that accompanies reports of the form "look this ancient law still applies" sent #chiark to SLD, which pleasingly does have The 1351 Treason Act online. As well as an English translation, it has an image of the original Norman French.

It would be nice to have that as something other than an image, but some of those glyphs are pretty odd. How would you get LaTeX or HTML to represent them?

1351 Treason Act, original Norman French

1351 Treason Act, original Norman French

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There really has to be a way, and given enough time I could find it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Evertype would know straight off.

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He would, but might not want to be bothered with such trivia :-s

[feel free to point him here, though :-) ]

Edited Date: 2008-03-11 03:25 pm (UTC)

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HTML entities include macrons and circumflexes, but sadly they are both spacing so you'd have to use unicode combining variants and hope they get typeset correctly by the browser. So v̂ should work as should m̄, though a quick preview in firefox suggests they don't work very nicely.

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They work OK in Opera.

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The v-hat is OK for me, your m-with-a-bar has the bar only over the second lump of the m.

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I'd say the cricumflex should be slightly higher above the v, but that may just be a font issue. Like you I don't get a proper length macron, but again I'm not sure if that's the browser or the font at fault.

I shall try this evening with WebKit and see how that copes.

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