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- adjective
composed in advance - adjective computing composed of a base
character and adiacritical mark
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Examples
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The Big Dig house is akin to a prefab system, made from a kit of precomposed parts.
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Fewer people will be able to render it correctly, though for various reasons, but most often the font employed doesn't contain the precomposed polytonic characters and the browser can't adequately substitute for them.
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The Scotch Presbyters, apart from their innate dislike to the use of any precomposed Form of Prayer, regarded the action of the King as an inroad upon the rights of the Church and roused themselves to resistance.
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It is a little remarkable that, while some classes of christians do not tolerate the preaching of a written discourse, others have an equal prejudice against all sermons which have not been carefully precomposed.
Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching Henry Ware 1818
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Bishop Secker says, that Lord Stanhope "spoke a precomposed speech, which he held in his hand, with great tremblings and agitations, and hesitated frequently in the midst of great vehemence."
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Combining Diacritics permit an operating system to support arbitrary algorithmic graphemes on the fly, and the better the rendering the bigger the problems in determining whether to search precomposed or decomposed.
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They are now automatically converted to precomposed Unicode characters.
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Takes an OpenType font and adds Unicode precomposed characters to it
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The OTLegacy application was designed to be a small tool takes an OpenType font produces an OpenType font with precomposed characters (such as é) by applying any OpenType lookups to trying to decompose Unicode characters into their components.
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For example if I apply some filter to the precomposed sequence in the main timeline I see some few frames of random footage in the place of the transition in that pre-composed sequence after full render.
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