On 11/02/2002 04:43:40 PM Thomas Lotze wrote:

>I don't see any harm in assigning standard UVs to ligatures
>other than that users who don't understand the difference between font
>encoding and text encoding will be encouraged to use them in documents.

I don't consider that harm insignficant. Also, what's the benefit? The 
only benefit I can see is a very temporary one: older software does not 
support rendering via smart-font technologies, thus can only display 
glyphs that are directly encoded. Even in that situations, I'd probably 
just use one of Adobe's expert set fonts (old wine for old wine skins) 
rather than create new fonts with ligatures encoded as PUA characters.



- Peter


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