Proposed Punctuation

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  "description": "The Typographic Apocrypha of Hervé Bazin                  A TrueType implementation of proposed, non-canonical punctuation marks from Hervé Bazin's 1966 essay Plumons l’Oiseau. Glyphs reside at Unicode...",
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  "content": "<div>\n      <h4>The Typographic Apocrypha of Hervé Bazin</h4>\n      <br />\n      <hr />\n      <p>A TrueType implementation of proposed, non-canonical punctuation marks from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Bazin\">Hervé Bazin</a>'s 1966 essay <em>Plumons l’Oiseau</em>. Glyphs reside at Unicode block <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4256.pdf\">suggested</a> by Mykyta Yevstifeyev and Karl Pentzlin.</p>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹃</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Love Point — U+2E43</h3>\n          <h5>Point d'amour</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹄</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Certitude Point — U+2E44</h3>\n          <h5>Point de certitude</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹅</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Authority Point — U+2E45</h3>\n          <h5>Point d'autorité</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹆</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Irony Point — U+2E46</h3>\n          <h5>Point d'ironie</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹇</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Acclamation Point — U+2E47</h3>\n          <h5>Point d'acclamation</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <div>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>⹈</h3>\n        <p></p>\n        <p>\n          </p><h3>Doubt Point — U+2E48</h3>\n          <h5>Point de doute</h5>\n        <p></p>\n      </div>\n      <hr />\n      <h2>Usage</h2>\n      <p>Download the Bazin TrueType font file <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://github.com/jonathanzong/proposed-punctuation/raw/gh-pages/assets/Bazin.ttf\">here</a>.</p>\n      <p>Define a CSS font-face with the TrueType file</p>\n      <pre>\n        @font-face {\n            font-family: \"Bazin\";\n            src: url(\"path/to/Bazin.ttf\");\n        }</pre>\n      <p>Include Bazin as a fallback font in your font-family declaration. CSS will load your primary font for text and fall back to Bazin for the punctuation glyphs, because they are in an unimplemented Unicode block in most other fonts.</p>\n      <pre>\n        body {\n          font-family: 'EB Garamond', 'Bazin', serif;\n        }</pre>\n      <p>Use as Unicode literals in strings or HTML entities in pages.</p>\n      <pre>\n        var s = \"You mean the world to me\\u2E43\";</pre>\n      <pre>\n        &lt;p&gt;You mean the world to me&amp;#x2E43;&lt;/p&gt;</pre>\n      <hr />\n      <h2>Making Meaning</h2>\n      <ol>\n        <li>Slip these punctuations into your daily correspondence. Circulate accordingly.</li>\n        <li>Use the marks how they were meant to be used — to articulate tone precisely, to imbue meaning.</li>\n        <li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Drop me a line.</a> I'd love to see how far these points will go.</li>\n      </ol>\n      <hr />\n      <h2>Details</h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li>License: <a href=\"https://github.com/jonathanzong/proposed-punctuation/blob/master/LICENSE\" target=\"_blank\">OFL</a></li>\n        <li>Glyphs traced as SVGs from raster images using Adobe Illustrator.</li>\n        <li>Font generated using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://fontforge.github.io/\">FontForge</a>.</li>\n      </ul>\n      <hr />\n      <div><p>2015 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://jonathanzong.com/\">Jonathan Zong</a>, with ⹃</p></div>\n      <br />\n    </div>",
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