Re: Last Resort Font

2003-09-02 Thread Peter_Constable
Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 02:52:55 PM: p. 63 (Syloti Nagri): both top and bottom read SILOTI NAGRI. I will look into all of that, and thank you for it; but note that of those only Thaana can be expected to display, as none of the others have been encoded. So none of those could

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Everson
At 06:48 -0700 2003-09-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Eversion wrote on 08/19/2003 02:52:55 PM: p. 63 (Syloti Nagri): both top and bottom read SILOTI NAGRI. I will look into all of that, and thank you for it; but note that of those only Thaana can be expected to display, as none of the

Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Everson
in the current font. If it's not, it starts looking through all the other fonts until it finds one that is suitable. The Last Resort Font has glyphs for all the characters, so it's the last one looked at. -- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Owen Taylor
character, it sees if it's in the current font. If it's not, it starts looking through all the other fonts until it finds one that is suitable. The Last Resort Font has glyphs for all the characters, so it's the last one looked at. If you have a Last Resort style font, Pango should pick

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Jim Allan
Michael Everson wrote: The Last Resort Font has glyphs for all the characters, so it's the last one looked at. I hope that it is not just for that reason that it is the last one looked at. Jim Allan

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 16:24 -0400 2003-08-19, Owen Taylor wrote: No. It generates much much better glyphs than that. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/ Of course, better here really depends on what you want. Prettier? Yes. Thanks. :-) More useful for Joe User who gets Sinhala spam? Yes.

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 16:51 -0400 2003-08-19, Jim Allan wrote: The Last Resort Font has glyphs for all the characters, so it's the last one looked at. I hope that it is not just for that reason that it is the last one looked at. Eh? The system looks for Unicode glyphs in all the other fonts and if there's

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread John Cowan
Michael Everson scripsit: No. It generates much much better glyphs than that. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/ Out of mild curiosity: (a) what font did you use to create the legends in the frame of each glyph; (b) are all the various representative glyphs drawn from a

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:08, Michael Everson wrote: At 16:24 -0400 2003-08-19, Owen Taylor wrote: If you have a Last Resort style font, Pango should pick it up as well. I don't know what Pango is but I guess it isn't relevant to me... It was mentioned in the mail that you replied to

Re: Last Resort Font

2003-08-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:26 -0400 2003-08-19, John Cowan wrote: Michael Everson scripsit: No. It generates much much better glyphs than that. See http://developer.apple.com/fonts/LastResortFont/ Out of mild curiosity: (a) what font did you use to create the legends in the frame of each glyph; Chicago. (b) are