Re: Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

2002-08-16 Thread James Kass
Michael Everson wrote, > >Appropriate font technology for Latin ligature display exists, > >but it isn't enabled yet in Microsoft's Uniscribe.* > > That doesn't mean that this particular cataloguing of ligatures in > the PUA is a good idea. > > >The Golden Ligatures Collection simply offers f

Re: Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

2002-08-15 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:07 -0700 2002-08-14, James Kass wrote: >Michael Everson wrote in response to William Overington, > >> >> I suggest you stop calling it the "golden ligatures collection". This >> term imputes a status and nobility to it which it simply doesn't >> have. Indeed, I suggest that you abandon th

Re: Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

2002-08-14 Thread James Kass
Michael Everson wrote in response to William Overington, > > I suggest you stop calling it the "golden ligatures collection". This > term imputes a status and nobility to it which it simply doesn't > have. Indeed, I suggest that you abandon this task and use > appropriate font technology to

Re: Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

2002-08-14 Thread Michael Everson
At 14:39 +0100 2002-08-14, William Overington wrote: >Suggestions for other ligatures and abbreviations to add into the >golden ligatures collection are also welcome. I suggest you stop calling it the "golden ligatures collection". This term imputes a status and nobility to it which it simply

Gutenberg's ligatures (spins off from Re: Tildes on vowels)

2002-08-14 Thread William Overington
Previously I wrote as follows. >There is a very interesting document entitled The Gutenberg Press available >as a file named gbpmanual.pdf from the Walden Font website. > >The website address is as follows. > >http://www.waldenfont.com > >The address for the file is as follows. > >http://www.wald