John Hudson wrote,
>
> >Uniscribe is a windows application and Microsoft tests it. Both
> >Microsoft and Apple provide tools to font developers which validate
> >fonts. TTF/OTF fonts have a rigid structure, if a font passes either
> >Microsoft's or Apple's font validators yet a system crashes
Martin Kochanski wrote:
> One might phrase the question like this: "If I sat you down in front
> of a program on a Windows machine, and asked you to type an alpha,
> what would you try first?".
That's easy. I'd hold down Alt and type 2 2 4 on the keypad. (hee hee
hee)
What's that? You want
Otto Stolz wrote:
>> - although we can take it for granted that you have not
>> got a keyboard with Greek letters enabled,
>
> Why not? It's so easy, in contemporary Windows versions.
> Why shouldn't I install a couple of keyboard layouts for the scripts
> I am going to type, on my Windows syste
Michael, John, Kenneth,
thank you very much for the prompt answers. This is exactly how I thought it
is (except for 02CA, where I wasn't sure).
Adam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>This was one of the basic
>design criteria in order to ensure that support for a script could be added
>by building a font using tools assessible to people with less that than
>C-programming skills and without requiring any re-write of software.
>
Actually, the goal of "
Adam asked:
> I have a very basic question. What would be the implementation differences
> of diacritics marks in a font? For example, we'd consider:
>
> U+00B4 acute accent
> U+02CA modifier letter acute accent
> U+0301 combining acute accent
>
> What are the common recommendations regarding t
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:23:57 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let's forget for a moment whether we're interested in ZWJ or ZWNJ. What do
you recommend to be the default behaviour with German text in the context
of software that has no particular knowledge of German typography and a
user that does
At 12:34 AM 19-07-02, Michael Everson wrote:
>At 00:56 +0200 2002-07-19, Adam Twardoch wrote:
>>I have a very basic question. What would be the implementation differences
>>of diacritics marks in a font? For example, we'd consider:
>>
>>U+00B4 acute accent
>
>This is a spacing acute accent.
>
>>U
At 00:56 +0200 2002-07-19, Adam Twardoch wrote:
>I have a very basic question. What would be the implementation differences
>of diacritics marks in a font? For example, we'd consider:
>
>U+00B4 acute accent
This is a spacing acute accent.
>U+02CA modifier letter acute accent
This is also spacin
On 07/18/2002 12:33:21 AM Asmus Freytag wrote:
>> The German
>>support in the font could still include the rlig lookups John has
>>suggested; and an intelligent app might even activate ligatures
>>automatically (like the SHY analogy Asmus mentioned) either by setting an
>>appropriate feature ov
On 07/17/2002 11:48:28 AM John Hudson wrote:
>>In Graphite, character sequences get mapped into glyph sequences
one-to-one
>>via the cmap...
>Presumably, though, making ligature lookups dependent on ZWJ in Graphite
--
>as in OpenType -- relies on the ZWJ character actually being painted.
Yes,
I have a very basic question. What would be the implementation differences
of diacritics marks in a font? For example, we'd consider:
U+00B4 acute accent
U+02CA modifier letter acute accent
U+0301 combining acute accent
What are the common recommendations regarding the glyphs in a font
(TrueType
On 07/17/2002 06:35:58 PM John Hudson wrote:
>I think Marco is still on holiday but, just before he left, he and I
>devised a method to enable bi-chromatic Ethiopic punctuation by utilising
a
>function similar to the MS Word 'Different colour for diacritics'
function...
Intriguing idea! What ma
On 07/11/2002 11:29:04 AM "Suzanne M. Topping" wrote:
>There was a comedian in the 1970's (I remember him from the children's
>public television show "Electric Company") who pronounced punctuation
>"phonetically" while reading various passages. So it wasn't words for
>the symbols, it was sounds.
A 09:26 2002-07-18 -0700, Addison Phillips [wM] a écrit :
>Hi Martin,
>
>I install the Chinese Unicode keyboard myself...
>
>When I confronted this specific problem recently in our products, the main
>solution I adopted was to allow \u notation as input (of course, our
>products are for develo
Marion Gunn wrote:
> The immediate attraction ang great advantage of Unicodes vision was its
> simplicity/focus: after an unsteady and argumentative start, its
> founders committed Unicode to the IMPLEMENTATION of10646, and became
> very specific (loud) about not calling it a STANDARD (note to n
Martin Kochanski wrote:
> "If I sat you down in front of a program on a Windows machine, and asked you
> to type an alpha, what would you try first?".
- Klick on the white DE on blue background (indicating my German
keyboard layout),
in the task bar,
- select Greek keyboard layout,
- Type
Hi Martin,
I install the Chinese Unicode keyboard myself...
When I confronted this specific problem recently in our products, the main
solution I adopted was to allow \u notation as input (of course, our
products are for developers...)
Hope that helps.
Addison
Addison P. Phillips
Director
Hi,
There is a newsletter at http://tdil.mit.gov.in/news.htm, and the
more recent one
http://tdil.mit.gov.in/tdiljan2002.pdf ( This describes some font
standardization effort )
TDIL - Technology Development in Indian languages , a Ministry IT, GOI
supported project,
More info at http://tdil
At 08:21 PM 7/17/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>You should always set as much info correctly in the font as you can.
>What you are seeing are the results of some workarounds we had to
>implement to handle poorly made fonts.
That is very interesting.
It would always help, I suppose, if editors such as Fo
Dear Ed,
Thank you for your lovely long and private e-mail, which I shall not
quote on the list, only referring to its usefulness in prompting me to
write this msg to the list, in supplement to my rather blunt note of yesterday.
EGT was one of the first companies to give (almost) unqualified s
I'm working on Unicode-enabling a database product for Windows. This obviously
includes making it possible for a user to type arbitrary Unicode characters, so I
thought it might be a good idea to ask people on this list about the input methods
that they found most intuitive. Quite apart from yo
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