Combining solidus above for transcription of poetic meter

[Ken Whistler]

On 3/17/2017 10:27 AM, Julian Bradfield wrote:
> If you're working in a situation where you don't have either markup
> control or the facility to use plain monospaced text, then just use
> normal breves and acutes.
> It's not clear to me that laying out aligned text (for which there are
> many other applications than scansion, e.g. interlinear translation)
> is something best achieved with combining characters!

I concur with Julian here. In fact, the very wiki article on scansion 
cited by Rebecca makes it clear that this is an interlinear type of 
annotation that in principle can use many *other* symbols, including x's 
(or multiplication signs), digits, circumflexes, and other symbols.

Furthermore, the application of the scansion marks is to *syllables* and 
not to individual letters, which further enhances the case for 
interlinear representation. The simplest implementation of that is 
precisely as done in that wiki: force the interlinear examples into a 
monospace font.

For simple transposing of an interlinear scansion into a single-line 
plain text representation, either combining breves and acutes (and 
circumflexes and graves, ...) can be used and/or spacing versions of 
breves (and circumflexes...) plus ordinary slashes and backslashes can 
be dropped into the syllabified text.

--Ken

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