On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Markus Kuhn writes:
> > I strongly recommend that you follow the practice we established in
> > XFree86 for the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646 fonts and split up GNU Unifont into
> > two separate charcell font files, one 8x16 and one 16x16.
>
> No, please don't do that. We need *both* ways of packaging Unicode fonts:
>
> a) As two separate charcell (fixed-width) fonts, for use by xterm
> and similar applications where width matters a lot.
>
> b) As a single (proportional) font, for use by applications which use
> a single font.
Can't b) be solved with the help of fontsets instead of redundantly
doubling the number of fonts?
Markus
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