RE: OpenType vs TrueType (was current version of unicode-font)

2004-12-07 Thread Gary P Grosso
Thanks to Peter Constable, John Hudson, Tom Gewecke, Christopher Fynn, and others, for taking the time to address my question. Gary --- Gary Grosso Arbortext, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA

RE: OpenType vs TrueType (was current version of unicode-font)

2004-12-03 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Hi Antoine, others, Questions about OpenType vs TrueType come up often in my work, so perhaps the list will suffer a couple of questions in that regard. First, I see an O icon, not an OT icon in Windows' Fonts folder for some fonts and a TT icon for others. Nothing looks like OT to me, so are

Unihan.txt and other possible representations of the data

2004-04-21 Thread Gary P. Grosso
There may be value in an HTML representation, utilizing links and multiple files. What would the logical division(s) be? Or has this already been done? --- Gary Grosso Arbortext, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI, USA

help finding radical/stroke index at unicode.org

2004-04-14 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Hi, I am looking for an up-to-date, online version of the sort of thing I see in the back of the printed Unicode 2.0 book. All I can find is a search engine thing, and that's real cool (I suppose) but I need a tableau, a complete picture, of the whole shebang. Can someone please help me find my

Re: help finding radical/stroke index at unicode.org

2004-04-14 Thread Gary P. Grosso
? Gary P. Grosso wrote on 4/14/2004, 1:18 PM: Hi, I am looking for an up-to-date, online version of the sort of thing I see in the back of the printed Unicode 2.0 book. All I can find is a search engine thing, and that's real cool (I suppose) but I need a tableau, a complete picture

Re: help finding radical/stroke index at unicode.org

2004-04-14 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Thanks, Ken. This is very helpful information, and I think we can consider this question answered, with the possible exception of what is the best default behavior. Our product is very configurable, and it will fall to me to help the customer get what they want. But if it were a clear-cut case

Re: help finding radical/stroke index at unicode.org

2004-04-14 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Thanks, Rick. Knowing it's not to be found online is helpful information. (Though it being online would have been preferred!) Gary At 02:33 PM 4/14/2004 -0700, Rick McGowan wrote: I am looking for some table of radicals that I can show our customer to help support that claim. I think maybe

Re: font tools (was creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.)

2003-11-21 Thread Gary P. Grosso
cursor is about 3 times as tall as the characters in the font. Unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to make the font available to others for comment. I will report this new symptom to the group responsible for creating the font. Gary At 07:33 PM 11/20/2003 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . Gary P

Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.

2003-11-20 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Since we're comparing notes on font tools, I recently was asked to look over an experimental font which had, among other things, characters in the Supplemental Multilingual Plane and used CFF format. (I had to look up what CFF format even was.) PFAEdit was able to load the font. At least I

Hungarian hyphenation (OT)

2003-10-28 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Hi, This is rather off the topic of Unicode, for which I apologize. Please feel free to read no further. I have a sample of Hungarian hyphenation at http://aapro.net/test/huhyph.pdf I welcome comment from anyone with a knowledge of Hungarian. I don't even know what are digraphs and diphthongs,

Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look right would require using different fonts for each. To have different fonts for the same characters in a single document would seem to require use and

Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Gary P. Grosso
. At 03:21 PM 10/9/01 -0400, John Cowan wrote: Gary P. Grosso wrote: Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look right would require using different fonts for each. Han unification does *not* unify

Re: Complete UniCode Install Pro/Con

2001-05-23 Thread Gary P. Grosso
At 12:52 PM 5/23/01 -0600, Otto Stolz wrote: Bob Pesavento asked: Also, is it correct that Arial is available as UniCode currently? Are there others? Cf. http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html#general. Best wishes, Otto Stolz I followed this link, and noticed it says: Arial

Unicode on a non-Unicode web page

2000-09-07 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Hi Unicoders, I am working on software to emit HTML in the encoding and character set of the user's choice, from SGML/XML documents which can contain any Plane 1 Unicode character. The question is what to do with characters outside the selected encoding. I thought I would use the "numeric"

Re: italic variants of CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I

2000-06-29 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Bernardi wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Gary P. Grosso wrote: A user's query has been passed on to me, regarding CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER I and CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER SHORT I (U+0438 and U+0439). They pointed out that they noticed that when they are italicized, they look like Us instead