On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 04:13:44 -0800 (PST), Rick McGowan wrote:
> Not really. Perfectly nice font designs for Tibetan don't need 800 odd
> glyphs, they can work very well with a small number of pieces and combine
> them at run-time. What you need is pretty much a set of full-height things
> an
A few observations, so that William will understand the scope and some of
the issues of what he is proposing.
1. For some Indic scripts, including Devanagari, there is no fixed set of
'ligatures' that would be normative for every typeface, or for every
language using the script. So even for a s
Markus Scherer wrote at 12:45 PM on Thursday, March 13, 2003:
>It has been suggested many times to build a database (list, document,
>XML, ...) where each
>designated/assigned code point and each character gets its "story":
>Comments on the glyphs, from
>what codepage it was inherited, usage com
> And nobody out there is volunteering to do it.
I would do it gladly, but I do not have any skills at Indian languages. My
opinion is that the list is important for the future of digital interactive
broadcasting so I am trying to get the list done so that it is ready for use
in displaying distan
Andrew C. West wrote...
> ... it would be extremely helpful to font
> designers and others to have free access to information about the glyph
> repertoires of certain scripts from the Unicode Web site.
"Someone" would have to provide the information, and serve it up in an
appropriate way to be
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:09:57 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> As long as Unicode is obtaining this information, it would be helpful
> if it could be published.
I agree with James and William that it would be extremely helpful to font
designers and others to have free access to information
In deference to Sarasvati's edicts I will not continue this thread on
the Unicode list, but rather privately.
--
ME
Michael Everson wrote as follows.
quote
Having said that, you could probably commission someone like me to provide
such a list.
end quote
I read that late last night and I realized that that had not occurred to me.
I had a long, quiet, late night think. Yes, I had been thinking that I
needed t
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William Overington wrote,
> I find it strange that the Unicode Standard does not codify the
> ligatures which can be produced with the languages of the Indian
> subcontinent at display time using specific sequences of regular
> Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art of font des
At 16:08 + 2003-03-14, William Overington wrote:
I find it strange that the Unicode Standard does not codify the
ligatures which can be produced with the languages of the Indian
subcontinent at display time using specific sequences of regular
Unicode characters so that someone skilled in th
At 08:08 AM 3/14/2003, William Overington wrote:
I find it strange that the
Unicode Standard does not codify the ligatures which can be produced with
the languages of the Indian subcontinent at display time using specific
sequences of regular Unicode characters so that someone skilled in the art
o
Markus Scherer wrote as follows.
quote
It has been suggested many times to build a database (list, document, XML,
...) where each designated/assigned code point and each character gets its
"story": Comments on the glyphs, from what codepage it was inherited, usage
comments and examples, alternate
> It has been suggested many times to build a database (list,
> document, XML, ...) where each
> designated/assigned code point and each character gets its
> "story": Comments on the glyphs, from
> what codepage it was inherited, usage comments and examples,
> alternate names, etc.
>
> I am t
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