Periphrasis is always possible, of course; but that doesn't mean that it is desirable.
1. Periphrasis is by definition longer. In a page where you want to present a lot of
information and not have it squeezed out by meta-information, the first paragraph in
my example could read "Seeing things
James Kass scripsit:
> Please note that the first entry in the cmap covers Glyph ID 3.
> Glyph IDs 0, 1, and 2 don't need to be covered by cmap, as they
> are constants which are supposed to be handled by default.
For the record, in FIGfonts the glyphs are labeled by their Unicode
character numb
Peter Constable wrote,
> ... For instance, in Times New Roman, Arial, Tahoma and even
> James' own Code2000, the first entry in the cmap is for U+0020:
Please note that the first entry in the cmap covers Glyph ID 3.
Glyph IDs 0, 1, and 2 don't need to be covered by cmap, as they
are constants
John Hudson wrote:
> but it should *not* be encoded as U+ or as any other codepoint.
> .notdef should be unencoded.
Almost. OpenType specifies that there is no functional difference
between a code point that is not mapped and a code point that is
explicitly mapped to GID 0, so there is
At 01:42 PM 01-08-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I think James is mistaken on this point: the missing glyph *is* the first
>glyph in any TTF, but it is *not* necessarily (probably not typically)
>mapped from U+. For instance, in Times New Roman, Arial, Tahoma and
>even James' own Code2000, the
On 08/01/2002 02:34:17 PM Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>But if you insist on having a code point to stick directly in
>a sentence like that above, I'd take the cue from James Kass:
>
>> The missing glyph is the first glyph in any font. This is mapped to
>> U+ and the system correctly substitutes
> As a clarification, here is a sample web page:
>
> http://www.cardbox.com/missing.htm
>
> The requirement is to be able to display the first paragraph of the
> page in such a way that it makes sense in its reference to the text
> on the rest of the page.
>
> The character after the word "th
As a clarification, here is a sample web page:
http://www.cardbox.com/missing.htm
The requirement is to be able to display the first paragraph of the page in such a way
that it makes sense in its reference to the text on the rest of the page.
The character after the word "this:" in the first p
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